Wim Wenders

Born: 1945-08-14 in Düsseldorf, Germany

Known For: Directing

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.

Filmography

2025

Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende as Self
From Darkness to Light ... (Executive Producer)
Films to Die For as Self - Interviewee
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
The Ozu Diaries as Self
The Keys to Freedom as Wim Wenders

2024

Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days' as Self

2023

Perfect Days ... (Producer)
Room 999 as Self
Songs of Earth ... (Executive Producer)
Cannes Uncut as Self
An Endless Sunday ... (Co-Producer)
German Genius as Wim Wenders
some body comes into the light ... (Director)
Directors Talks as Self
Anselm ... (Director)
Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party ... (Producer)

2022

Film: The Living Record of Our Memory as Self
Roving Woman ... (Executive Producer)
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer as Self
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors as Self
Die 2050er - Everything will change
Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary as Lui-même
CAN and Me as Self
Présence ... (Director)
From Our Side

2021

Reality Winner ... (Executive Producer)
Now as Self
Souad ... (Co-Producer)
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner as Self
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time ... (Executive Producer)
Why Are We (Not) Creative? as Self
A Future Together ... (Director)

2020

Wim Wenders, Desperado as Self
A Black Jesus ... (Producer)
Good Morning, the Wind Blows as Himself
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen as Self
High Maintenance as Self
Two or Three Things I Know about Edward Hopper ... (Writer)
Veränderung as Self

2019

Zeroville as Larry
Waiting for the Miracle to Come ... (Executive Producer)
Paul Auster: What If as Self - Filmmaker

2010

Au Revoir Taipei ... (Executive Producer)
Westpol: Eins zu eins as self
Snowblind as Gray Fox
Il Volo ... (Director)
Cronología
If Buildings Could Talk ... (Director)

2009

What Do You Know About Me as Self
The Open Road ... (Executive Producer)
Passage ... (Thanks)

2008

Palermo Shooting ... (Director)
The Clone Returns Home ... (Executive Producer)
8 ... (Director)
Back to Room 666 as Self
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years as Self
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers as Self
Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte as Self
Person to Person ... (Director)
Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years as Self
Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada as Self

2007

Invisibles ... (Director)
To Each His Own Cinema ... (Director)
Dickes B as Self
Cannes: All Access as Self
Invisible Crimes ... (Director)

2006

The Art of Football from A to Z as Self
The Way I Spent the End of the World ... (Associate Producer)
The House Is Burning ... (Executive Producer)

2005

Don't Come Knocking ... (Director)
Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski as Self
Egoshooter ... (Producer)

2004

Kulturplatz as Self
Land of Plenty ... (Director)
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen as Self
Im Palais as Self
La torcedura
Leçon de Cinéma as Self
Música Cubana ... (Producer)
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments as Self
Half the Rent ... (Producer)

2003

ZIBB as Self
Fools ... (Producer)
The Soul of a Man ... (Director)
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us as Self
The Blues ... (Writer)
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die) as Self
The Other Side of the Road ... (Director)
Fools ... (Producer)

2002

June Moon ... (Producer)
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet as Doctor #1 (segment "Twelve Miles to Trona")
Fassbinder in Hollywood as Self
Three Days of Rain ... (Presenter)
BAP - Ode to Cologne ... (Director)

2001

Janela da Alma as Self

2000

The Million Dollar Hotel
One Morning All Over the World ... (Director)
In the Shadow of Hollywood ... (Archival Footage Research)
FreeDogme as himself

1999

Volle Kanne as Self
Buena Vista Social Club ... (Director)

1998

The Johannes B. Kerner Show as Self
Sabine Christiansen as Self
City of Angels ... (Original Film Writer)
Willie Nelson at the Teatro ... (Director)
Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show as Self
Alekan le magnifique as Self

1997

Nachtstudio as Self
Im Dialog as self
The End of Violence ... (Producer)
Tango Berlin
Go for Gold! ... (Producer)

1996

Love in Hollywood as Self

1995

Die Harald Schmidt Show as Self
Lumière & Company ... (Director)
Beyond the Clouds ... (Screenplay)
The Night of the Filmmakers as Self
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive as Self (uncredited)
A Trick of the Light as Regisseur / Milchmann
In Bildern leben - Die filmischen Reflexionen des Wim Wenders as Self

1994

Kleiner Mann ganz groß as Self
Lisbon Story ... (Director)
Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait as Self

1993

The Absence ... (Producer)
Without Me as Himself
Talking with Ozu as Self
Faraway, So Close! ... (Director)
Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring as Santa Claus
Adamski ... (Thanks)

1992

Morgenmagazin as Self
Riverboat as Self

1991

Until the End of the World ... (Director)
Dream Island

1990

Speaking Parts ... (Thanks)
Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas' as Self
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter ... (Director)
Pictures of Europe as Self
Wim Wenders in Tokyo as Self
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders as Self

1989

Notebook on Cities and Clothes as Self
The Heart and the Legs as Self

1988

The Passenger – Welcome to Germany ... (Consulting Producer)
Chocolat ... (Co-Producer)
Alekan, la lumière as Self

1987

Nachtcafé as Self
Wings of Desire ... (Director)
Sansibar oder Der letzte Grund ... (Sound Mix Technician)
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long as Gas Station Attendant
live - die ZDF-talkshow as Self
Iron Earth, Copper Sky ... (Producer)

1985

Tokyo-Ga ... (Director)
King Kongs Faust as Regisseur
Report from Hollywood
I Played It for You ... (Additional Photography)

1984

Goldene Kamera as Self
Tausend Augen as Dieb im Videoladen
Paris, Texas ... (Director)

1983

Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act as Himself

1982

Room 666 as Self
Hammett ... (Director)
Wortwechsel as Self
The State of Things as Tram Passenger (uncredited)
Cinématon XXII as N°212
Menschen as Self
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982 as Self
Cinéma cinémas ... (Director)
Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders

1980

Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers ... (Additional Camera)
Lightning Over Water as Self

1979

NDR Talk Show as Self
Radio On ... (Associate Producer)
Bavarian Film Awards as Self
Nicholas Ray: Especially for Pierre ... (Producer)
...als Diesel geboren ... (Producer)

1978

Long Shot as Another Director
The Left-Handed Woman ... (Producer)
Cinématon as N°212

1977

The American Friend as Figure Wrapped in Plaster Bandages in Ambulance (uncredited)

1976

Kölner Treff as Self
Kings of the Road as Spectator at Pauline's Theater (uncredited)
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema as Self

1975

Midi Première as Self
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick as Man Walking through Vienna Bus Station (uncredited)
Wrong Move as Man in Dining Car (uncredited)

1974

Spécial cinéma as Self
Alice in the Cities as Man by Jukebox in American Cafe (uncredited)
Ein Haus für uns ... (Director)
From the Family of Reptiles ... (Director)
The Island ... (Director)
Ein bißchen Liebe ... (Producer)

1973

The Scarlet Letter ... (Director)

1972

Summer in the City as Billardspieler (uncredited)

1969

3 American LPs
Kaspar Hauser ... (Director)
Am Spätnachmittag des folgenden Tages erwachte Joe in einem billigen Hotelzimmer - Andy schläft noch ... ... (Producer)
Alabama (2000 Light Years) ... (Director)
Silver City Revisited ... (Director)
Polizeifilm ... (Director)
Der Fall Lena Christ ... (Unit Manager)
Amon Duul II: Plays Phallus Dei ... (Director of Photography)
Ten Years After ... (Director of Photography)

1968

Love and So Forth as Student
Klappenfilm ... (Producer)
Same Player Shoots Again ... (Director)
Candy Man
Victor I. ... (Director)

1967

Schauplätze ... (Director)

1951

German Film Award as Self

1948

Bambi as Self