Wim Wenders
Birthday: 1945-08-14
Place of Birth: Düsseldorf, Germany
Biography: Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker and playwright, who is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among the honors he has received are prizes from the Cannes, Venice and Berlin film festivals. He has also received a BAFTA Award and been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Grammy Award. Wenders made his feature film debut with Summer in the City (1970). He earned critical acclaim for directing the films Alice in the Cities (1974), The Wrong Move (1975), and Kings of the Road (1976), later known as the Road Movie trilogy. Wenders won the BAFTA Award for Best Direction and the Palme d'Or for Paris, Texas (1984) and the Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award for Wings of Desire (1987). His other notable films include The American Friend (1977), Faraway, So Close! (1993), and Perfect Days (2023). Wenders has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature: for Buena Vista Social Club (1999), Pina (2011), and The Salt of the Earth (2014). He received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video for Willie Nelson at the Teatro (1998). He is also known for directing the documentaries Tokyo-Ga (1985), The Soul of a Man (2003), and Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (2018). Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy since 1996 and won an Honorary Golden Bear in 2015. He is an active photographer, emphasizing images of desolate landscapes. He is considered an auteur director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wim Wenders, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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King Kongs Faust
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Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte
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Kings of the Road
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Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
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Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
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Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
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Lightning Over Water
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Janela da Alma
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Close Up
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Die 2050er - Everything will change
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Snowblind
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Room 999
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Without Me
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Tango Berlin
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The Million Dollar Hotel
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Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
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La torcedura
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Cronología
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Hitler in Hollywood
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Cannes Uncut
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Notebook on Cities and Clothes
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Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
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Report from Hollywood
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Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
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Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
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Pictures of Europe
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The Night of the Filmmakers
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Why Are We (Not) Creative?
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One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
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Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
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Fassbinder in Hollywood
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Cinématon
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From Our Side
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Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
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Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
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CAN and Me
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The Salt of the Earth
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BAM150
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Zeroville
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Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
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Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen
Documentary about German film critic Michael Althen....
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Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
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Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act
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Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
Wim Wenders's atmospheric testimony about the problems he encountered while working on HAMMET(1982) ...
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Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
The inevitable fat cigar between his fingers, the American actor, director and fine artist Dennis Ho...
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Back to Room 666
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Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
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Kleiner Mann ganz groß
Documentary feature about German actor Heinz Rühmann made shortly before his death in 1994....
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Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
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Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas
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French Cinema Mon Amour
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Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
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Room 666
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To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
A behind-the-scenes look by wife Enrica Antonioni into Michelangelo Antonioni's passion for cinema a...
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Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
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The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
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3 American LPs
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A Fuller Life
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Talking with Ozu
A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay An...
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Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
An account of the life and work of legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004)...
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The Legend of the Palme d'Or
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Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'
Documentary about the making of Wim Wenders' 1984 film, with interviews conducted in 1989....
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Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures....
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Long Shot
Against the backdrop of the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, two low-budget filmmakers attempt to talk...
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Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years
In intimate conversations Wim Wenders talks about his sheltered upbringing in post-war Germany. The ...
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The State of Things
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Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
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The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov
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Living the Light: Robby Müller
For her extraordinary film essay, Living the Light, Director and Director of Photography Claire Pijm...
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Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
Though very polite and British, this feature-length documentary about German filmmaker Wim Wenders o...
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Alekan, la lumière
An episode of the show "Océaniques " about the craft and lighting techniques of the legendary French...
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Love and So Forth
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Viaggio in Bergmania
This is a cinematic pilgrimage by two young Turkish directors to their biggest source of inspiration...
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Cannes: All Access
From its simple beginnings in 1939 in a sleepy beach town in the south of France, the prestigious Ca...
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FreeDogme
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Restoring Time
Documentary about the efforts to preserve and restore the films of German director Wim Wenders....
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Paul Auster: What If
A look at the world of US writer Paul Auster, on the occasion of the publication of his new novel, a...
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Tausend Augen
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Wim Wenders in Tokyo
A documentary which follows director Wim Wenders and Sean Naughton, the high-definition-video desig...
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Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany
A documentary on the 1973 Sam Fuller film Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street....
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Beyond the Bolex
Filmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading phot...
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Henri Langlois vu par...
Thirteen filmmakers share personal reflections on Henri Langlois—the visionary founder of the Cinéma...
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The Art of Football from A to Z
Funnyman John Cleese leads viewers through an exhaustive -- and hilarious -- tour of the world of so...
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Now
A documentary that shows how young activists from around the globe such as Felix Finkbeiner (Plant f...
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Three for the Road
Interview with director Wim Wenders conducted and edited by filmmaker Michael Almereyda....
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A Trick of the Light
A rare gem of cinematic storytelling that weaves docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental ...
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Wim Wenders, Desperado
"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wende...
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Veränderung
Wim Wenders ponders about the future of our society and film making amidst the Covid-19 pandemic....
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Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
Pope Francis responds to questions from around the world, discussing topics including ecology, immig...
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Alice in the Cities
German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about t...
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Wrong Move
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother ...
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Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
Alex is a Finnish taxi driver in Berlin. One evening pits two men feel comfortable in his taxi with ...
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The American Friend
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture fra...
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A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Born in Berlin in 1896, Lotte Eisner became famous for her passionate involvement in the world of bo...
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What Do You Know About Me
Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Th...
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High Maintenance
A fascinating journey through the life of Israeli artist Dani Karavan, an irreverent and charismatic...
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Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days'
Director Wim Wenders talks about the production process of his 2023 film ' Perfect Days'....
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Why Are We Creative?
A 30 years odyssey: the world's most intriguing artists and thinkers from the fields of visual art, ...
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The Keys to Freedom
To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, Wim Wenders shot a short film that ...
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A Weekend at the Beach
Godard to come to the University California, San Diego to give a lecture. He stayed at our house at ...
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The Ozu Diaries
Unveiling Yasujiro Ozu’s legacy through his personal diaries, letters, and interviews, the documenta...
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Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende
At 80 years old, German director and photographer Wim Wenders talks about his unwavering joy in crea...
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In Bildern leben - Die filmischen Reflexionen des Wim Wenders
In the 1990s, the German film critic Peter Buchka made some essay films about the filmmakers of the ...
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Leçon de cinéma avec Wim Wenders
An interview with filmmaker Wim Wenders on the occasion of the retrospective dedicated to him in 201...
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Plankton Salesmen
A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in Russia in the early 2000s. ...
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Black Baby
A black baby attempts to escape a labyrinth whilst being pursued by a gaggle of giant humanoids...
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