"The German title translates literally as 'In the Course of Time,' and time-its passing and the changes it wreaks-is an almost palpable part of the film's subject. Set thirty years after the war, the narrative focuses on two thirty-year-old characters: Bruno, the King of the Road, who lives in a pantechnicon and travels the country, repairing and dismantling old cinema equipment; and Robert, the Kamikaze, on the run from a failing marriage. Together, the pair travel the East German border from Luneburg to Hof, moving via a series of disquieting, disconnected and unsatisfactory encounters, to the realization that 'everything must change.' Kings of the Road is a marathon road movie: about the death of the cinema; about the absence of women; about the fact that, as one character puts it, "the Americans have colonized our subconscious." Its heroes (including the truck with its Wurlitzer juke-box) are drop-outs from a neon society, but still obsessed by the emblems of American road movies...(It's) a method, elliptical but precise, for measuring (a) moral vacuum..." --Jan Dawson