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Wim Wenders
Born · August 14, 1945 (79 years old)
Known For: Directing
Place of Birth: Düsseldorf, Germany
Bio
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.
Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days'
Self
0.0
2024
Room 999
Self
5.8
2023
Now
Self
8.8
2021
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Self
8.5
2021
High Maintenance
Self
5.8
2020
Good Morning, the Wind Blows
Himself
0.0
2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self
7.7
2020
Veränderung
Self
0.0
2020
Paul Auster: What If
Self - Filmmaker
6.0
2019
Beyond the Bolex
Self
7.0
2018
Living the Light: Robby Müller
Self
6.7
2018
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
7.0
2018
The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov
Self
3.7
2017
Three for the Road
Self
0.0
2016
Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany
Self
0.0
2015
Restoring Time
Self
0.0
2015
Henri Langlois vu par...
Self
0.0
2014
Viaggio in Bergmania
Self
7.0
2011
What Do You Know About Me
Self
0.0
2009
Cannes: All Access
Self
3.7
2007
The Art of Football from A to Z
Self
4.8
2006
FreeDogme
himself
4.0
2000
Alekan le magnifique
Self
0.0
1998
Love in Hollywood
Self
0.0
1996
A Trick of the Light
Regisseur / Milchmann
5.7
1995
Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
Self
7.0
1994
Wim Wenders in Tokyo
Self
0.0
1990
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
Self
0.0
1990
Alekan, la lumière
Self
0.0
1988
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
Gas Station Attendant
5.7
1987
Tausend Augen
Dieb im Videoladen
5.0
1984
Cinématon XXII
N°212
0.0
1982
The State of Things
Tram Passenger (uncredited)
6.5
1982
The American Friend
Figure Wrapped in Plaster Bandages in Ambulance (uncredited)
7.2
1977
Wrong Move
Man in Dining Car (uncredited)
6.8
1975
Alice in the Cities
Man by Jukebox in American Cafe (uncredited)
7.7
1974
Love and So Forth
Student
0.0
1968
Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders
0.0
Directors Talks
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
2023
Cannes Uncut
Self
5.8
2023
German Genius
Wim Wenders · (1 episode)
5.5
2023
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Self
7.9
2022
CAN and Me
Self
6.0
2022
Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
Lui-même
0.0
2022
From Our Side
5.5
2022
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Wim Wenders
0.0
2022
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Self
8.6
2022
Everything Will Change
6.6
2022
Why Are We (Not) Creative?
Self
6.0
2021
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
Self · (4 episodes)
10.0
2020
Zeroville
Larry
5.1
2019
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
2018
Plankton Salesmen
Self (archive footage)
0.0
2017
Along for the Ride
Self
7.0
2016
Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life
Self
5.2
2016
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
Self
5.8
2016
Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
Self
0.0
2015
French Cinema Mon Amour
Self
0.5
2015
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
Self
6.0
2015
Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen
Self
7.0
2015
The Salt of the Earth
Self
8.1
2014
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Self
6.6
2013
A Fuller Life
Self - Reader (segment "A River of Tears")
6.6
2013
Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas
Self
7.0
2012
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
9.0
2012
BAM150
Self
0.0
2012
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
Self
7.5
2011
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Self · (1 episode)
7.6
2011
Schawinski
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
2011
Hitler in Hollywood
Wim Wenders
6.4
2011
Zwischen den Zeiten
0.0
2011
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Self
5.5
2011
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
0.0
2011
Snowblind
Gray Fox
4.2
2010
Cronología
0.0
2010
Westpol: Eins zu eins
self · (1 episode)
0.0
2010
Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada
Self
6.0
2008
Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte
Self
6.3
2008
Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years
Self
6.0
2008
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Self
6.7
2008
Back to Room 666
Self
5.5
2008
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
Self
7.0
2008
Dickes B
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
2007
Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
Self
8.5
2005
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
Self
6.8
2004
Kulturplatz
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
2004
Im Palais
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
2004
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
Self
7.5
2004
Leçon de Cinéma
Self · (1 episode)
7.0
2004
La torcedura
0.0
2004
ZIBB
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
2003
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
Self
8.3
2003
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
Self
5.0
2003
Fassbinder in Hollywood
Self
5.9
2002
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Doctor #1 (segment "Twelve Miles to Trona")
6.6
2002
Janela da Alma
Self
6.9
2001
The Million Dollar Hotel
5.9
2000
Volle Kanne
Self · (3 episodes)
4.4
1999
Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
1998
Die Johannes B. Kerner Show
Self · (1 episode)
4.0
1998
Sabine Christiansen
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
1998
Nachtstudio
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
1997
Im Dialog
self · (1 episode)
0.0
1997
Tango Berlin
0.0
1997
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self · (2 episodes)
7.0
1995
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
Self (uncredited)
0.0
1995
The Night of the Filmmakers
Self
5.0
1995
Kleiner Mann ganz groß
Self
0.0
1994
Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
Santa Claus
6.2
1993
Talking with Ozu
Self
6.5
1993
Without Me
Himself
0.0
1993
Morgenmagazin
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
1992
Riverboat
Self · (1 episode)
5.5
1992
Dream Island
0.0
1991
Pictures of Europe
Self
0.0
1990
Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'
Self
0.0
1990
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
Self
6.6
1989
The Heart and the Legs
Self
0.0
1989
100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
6.8
1989
live - die ZDF-talkshow
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
1987
Nachtcafé
Self · (1 episode)
6.5
1987
King Kongs Faust
Regisseur
0.0
1985
Report from Hollywood
0.0
1985
Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act
Himself
0.0
1983
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
Self
0.0
1982
Room 666
Self
6.4
1982
Menschen
Self · (1 episode)
4.0
1982
Wortwechsel
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
1982
Lightning Over Water
Self
6.9
1980
Bayerischer Filmpreis
Self · (3 episodes)
0.0
1979
NDR Talk Show
Self · (3 episodes)
6.5
1979
Cinématon
N°212
4.3
1978
Long Shot
Another Director
0.0
1978
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Self
0.0
1976
Kings of the Road
Spectator at Pauline's Theater (uncredited)
7.5
1976
Kölner Treff
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
1976
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Man Walking through Vienna Bus Station (uncredited)
5.8
1975
Midi Première
Self · (1 episode)
10.0
1975
Spécial cinéma
Self · (3 episodes)
0.0
1974
Summer in the City
Billardspieler (uncredited)
5.9
1972
3 American LPs
5.0
1969
Candy Man
0.0
1968
Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Self · (1 episode)
3.5
1966
Deutscher Filmpreis
Self · (4 episodes)
6.0
1951
Bambi Awards
Self · (1 episode)
9.0
1948