Wim Wenders

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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 (
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Personal Info

Id

2303

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

2

Gender

Male

Birthday

1945-08-14

Place of Birth

Düsseldorf, Germany

Also Known As

  • Vimu Vendâsu
  • 文溫德斯
  • 빔 벤더스
  • Вим Вендерс
  • Вім Вендерс
  • ویم وندرس
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    100

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    Known For

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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

    Film: The Li

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    Wings of Des

    Lightning Over Water

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    Janela da Alma

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    Close Up

    Die 2050er - Everything will change

    Die 2050er -

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    Snowblind

    Room 999

    Room 999

    The Million Dollar Hotel

    The Million

    Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

    Ten Minutes

    Hitler in Hollywood

    Hitler in Ho

    Cannes Uncut

    Cannes Uncut

    Notebook on Cities and Clothes

    Notebook on

    Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

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    Mondo Lux: T

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    Arisha, the

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    Pictures of

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    The Night of

    Why Are We (Not) Creative?

    Why Are We (

    One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years

    One Who Set

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    Fassbinder i

    Cinématon

    Cinématon

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    From Our Sid

    Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen

    Edgar G. Ulm

    Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

    Come With Me

    CAN and Me

    CAN and Me

    The Salt of the Earth

    The Salt of

    Zeroville

    Zeroville

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    Dennis Hoppe

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    Was heißt hi

    Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

    Werner Herzo

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    Dennis Hoppe

    Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982

    Reverse Angl

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    Dennis Hoppe

    Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary

    Bruno Ganz -

    Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski

    Still Alive:

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    Kleiner Mann

    Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain

    Chris Marker

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    Edward Hoppe

    French Cinema Mon Amour

    French Cinem

    Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard

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    Room 666

    Room 666

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    To Make a Fi

    Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider

    Dennis Hoppe

    The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

    The Goalie's

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    A Fuller Life

    A Fuller Lif

    Talking with Ozu

    Talking with

    Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life

    Water and Su

    The Legend of the Palme d'Or

    The Legend o

    Summer in the City

    Summer in th

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    Motion and E

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    Effedia - Su

    Long Shot

    Long Shot

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    Along for th

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    The State of Things

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    The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov

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    Living the L

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    Motion and E

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    Alekan, la l

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    Love and So

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    Viaggio in B

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    Cannes: All

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    FreeDogme

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    Restoring Ti

    Paul Auster: What If

    Paul Auster:

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    Tausend Auge

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    Wim Wenders

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    Return to Be

    Beyond the Bolex

    Beyond the B

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    Alekan le ma

    Henri Langlois vu par...

    Henri Langlo

    The Art of Football from A to Z

    The Art of F

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    Now

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    Three for th

    A Trick of the Light

    A Trick of t

    Wim Wenders, Desperado

    Wim Wenders,

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    Veränderung

    Pope Francis: A Man of His Word

    Pope Francis

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    Love in Holl

    Alice in the Cities

    Alice in the

    Wrong Move

    Wrong Move

    Helsinki Napoli All Night Long

    Helsinki Nap

    The American Friend

    The American

    A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

    A Life for M

    Good Morning, the Wind Blows

    Good Morning

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    Cinématon n°

    What Do You Know About Me

    What Do You

    High Maintenance

    High Mainten

    Why Are We Creative?

    Why Are We C

    The Keys to Freedom

    The Keys to

    A Weekend at the Beach

    A Weekend at

    The Ozu Diaries

    The Ozu Diar

    Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende

    Wim Wenders:

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    In Bildern l

    Leçon de cinéma avec Wim Wenders

    Leçon de cin

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    La nostra ma

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    Films to Die

    Plankton Salesmen

    Plankton Sal

    Filmstudio, mon amour

    Filmstudio,

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    Films to Die For

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    2025

    La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione

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    The Ozu Diaries

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    2025

    Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende

    asSelf

    2025

    The Keys to Freedom

    asWim Wenders

    2024

    Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days'

    asSelf

    2023

    Room 999

    asSelf

    2023

    Cannes Uncut

    asSelf

    2022

    Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

    asSelf

    2022

    CAN and Me

    asSelf

    2022

    Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary

    asLui-même

    2022

    From Our Side

    as

    2022

    Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

    asSelf

    2022

    Film: The Living Record of Our Memory

    asSelf

    2022

    Die 2050er - Everything will change

    as

    2021

    Why Are We (Not) Creative?

    asSelf

    2021

    Now

    asSelf

    2021

    A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

    asSelf

    2020

    High Maintenance

    asSelf

    2020

    Good Morning, the Wind Blows

    asHimself

    2020

    Wim Wenders, Desperado

    asSelf

    2020

    Veränderung

    asSelf

    2019

    Zeroville

    asLarry

    2019

    Paul Auster: What If

    asSelf - Filmmaker

    2018

    Beyond the Bolex

    asSelf

    2018

    Living the Light: Robby Müller

    asSelf

    2018

    Why Are We Creative?

    asSelf

    2018

    Pope Francis: A Man of His Word

    asSelf - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

    2018

    Leçon de cinéma avec Wim Wenders

    asSelf - filmmaker

    2017

    Plankton Salesmen

    asSelf (archive footage)

    2017

    Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life

    asSelf

    2017

    The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov

    asSelf

    2016

    Along for the Ride

    asSelf

    2016

    Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider

    asSelf

    2016

    Three for the Road

    asSelf

    2015

    A Weekend at the Beach

    asSelf

    2015

    Filmstudio, mon amour

    asSé stesso

    2015

    Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain

    asSelf

    2015

    French Cinema Mon Amour

    asSelf

    2015

    Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany

    asSelf

    2015

    The Legend of the Palme d'Or

    asSelf

    2015

    Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen

    asSelf

    2015

    Restoring Time

    asSelf

    2014

    The Salt of the Earth

    asSelf

    2014

    Henri Langlois vu par...

    asSelf

    2013

    Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

    asSelf

    2013

    A Fuller Life

    asSelf - Reader (segment "A River of Tears")

    2012

    Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas

    asSelf

    2012

    Close Up

    asSelf (archive footage)

    2012

    BAM150

    asSelf

    2011

    Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard

    asSelf

    2011

    Hitler in Hollywood

    asWim Wenders

    2011

    Zwischen den Zeiten

    as

    2011

    Viaggio in Bergmania

    asSelf

    2011

    Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter

    asSelf

    2011

    Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland

    as

    2010

    Snowblind

    asGray Fox

    2010

    Cronología

    as

    2009

    What Do You Know About Me

    asSelf

    2008

    Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada

    asSelf

    2008

    Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte

    asSelf

    2008

    Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years

    asSelf

    2008

    Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

    asSelf

    2008

    Back to Room 666

    asSelf

    2008

    One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years

    asSelf

    2007

    Cannes: All Access

    asSelf

    2006

    The Art of Football from A to Z

    asSelf

    2005

    Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski

    asSelf

    2004

    Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen

    asSelf

    2004

    Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments

    asSelf

    2004

    La torcedura

    as

    2003

    Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us

    asSelf

    2003

    Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)

    asSelf

    2002

    Fassbinder in Hollywood

    asSelf

    2002

    Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

    asDoctor #1 (segment "Twelve Miles to Trona")

    2001

    Janela da Alma

    asSelf

    2000

    The Million Dollar Hotel

    as

    2000

    FreeDogme

    ashimself

    1998

    Alekan le magnifique

    asSelf

    1997

    Tango Berlin

    as

    1996

    Love in Hollywood

    asSelf

    1995

    A Trick of the Light

    asRegisseur / Milchmann

    1995

    To Make a Film Is to Be Alive

    asSelf (uncredited)

    1995

    The Night of the Filmmakers

    asSelf

    1995

    In Bildern leben - Die filmischen Reflexionen des Wim Wenders

    asSelf

    1994

    Kleiner Mann ganz groß

    asSelf

    1994

    Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait

    asSelf

    1993

    Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring

    asSanta Claus

    1993

    Talking with Ozu

    asSelf

    1993

    Without Me

    asHimself

    1991

    Dream Island

    as

    1990

    Wim Wenders in Tokyo

    asSelf

    1990

    Pictures of Europe

    asSelf

    1990

    Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'

    asSelf

    1990

    Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders

    asSelf

    1989

    Notebook on Cities and Clothes

    asSelf

    1989

    The Heart and the Legs

    asSelf

    1988

    Alekan, la lumière

    asSelf

    1987

    Helsinki Napoli All Night Long

    asGas Station Attendant

    1985

    King Kongs Faust

    asRegisseur

    1985

    Report from Hollywood

    as

    1984

    Tausend Augen

    asDieb im Videoladen

    1983

    Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act

    asHimself

    1982

    Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982

    asSelf

    1982

    Cinématon XXII

    asN°212

    1982

    Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders

    as

    1982

    Room 666

    asSelf

    1982

    The State of Things

    asTram Passenger (uncredited)

    1980

    Lightning Over Water

    asSelf

    1978

    Cinématon

    asN°212

    1978

    Long Shot

    asAnother Director

    1977

    The American Friend

    asFigure Wrapped in Plaster Bandages in Ambulance (uncredited)

    1976

    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

    asSelf

    1976

    Kings of the Road

    asSpectator at Pauline's Theater (uncredited)

    1975

    The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

    asMan Walking through Vienna Bus Station (uncredited)

    1975

    Wrong Move

    asMan in Dining Car (uncredited)

    1974

    Alice in the Cities

    asMan by Jukebox in American Cafe (uncredited)

    1972

    Summer in the City

    asBillardspieler (uncredited)

    1969

    3 American LPs

    as

    1968

    Love and So Forth

    asStudent

    1968

    Candy Man

    as

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