Peter Handke
Birthday: 1942-12-06
Place of Birth: Griffen, Austria
Biography: Peter Handke (born 6 December 1942, in Griffen, Austria) is an avant-garde Austrian novelist, playwright and screenwriter. In 2019, Handke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."
Movies
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag f...
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Griffen – On the Tracks of Peter Handke
Bernd Liepold-Mosser returns home to a place bordering the bilingual region of Lower Carinthia to ta...
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Days and Nights in Paris
Reencounter with a myth. 40 years since Georg Stefan Troller reported from his adopted home in "Pari...
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Peter Handke: In the Woods, Might Be Late
In the sixties, Peter Handke was one of the first to show how the business works: the writer as angr...
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3 American LPs
Another short was 3 American LPs, which was the first film I did with Peter Handke. It was a film ab...
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The Malady of Death
In the space of a short 65 minutes, a woman enters the luxury apartment of a wealthy man with an ecc...
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Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
This is a documentary about the making of "Wings of Desire" (1987). The director, writer, actors, co...
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The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
A man and a woman share their musings on love and freedom one summer night. The couple’s conversatio...
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One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
The early films of Wim Wenders are now regarded as landmarks of European film. Alice in the Cities, ...
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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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Dichter Forum Graz
Five young writers from the 'Forum Stadtpark' in Graz who were little-known back then play bizarre c...
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To Duration: A Tribute to Peter Handke
Based on Handke's 1986 poem "Canto alla Durata". The film explores the concept of duration through t...
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