 Although the film "The Survivors", which the crew is shooting during the opening of "The State of Things", was repeatedly called a remake of either "Day the World Ended" or "Most Dangerous Man Alive" by reviewers and encyclopaedia, it bears no close resemblance to either except for the post-apocalyptic scenery.In 1994, Wenders made "Lisbon Story", in which the fictitious film director in "The State of Things", Friedrich Munro (played again by Bauchau), reappears under the name Friedrich Monroe, having expatriated to Portugal.The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival of 1982.