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

2023

Perfect Days ... (Producer)
German Genius as Wim Wenders
Room 999 as Self
Directors Talks as Self
Anselm ... (Director)
Cannes Uncut as Self
Songs of Earth ... (Executive Producer)
Some Body Comes Into the Light ... (Director)
An Endless Sunday ... (Co-Producer)
Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party ... (Producer)

2022

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

2021

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

2020

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

2019

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

2018

Submergence ... (Director)
Why Are We Creative? as Self
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word as Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Little Hands ... (Executive Producer)
It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story ... (Executive Producer)
Beyond the Bolex as Self
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film? as Self
Living the Light: Robby Müller as Self
Leçon de cinéma avec Wim Wenders as Self - filmmaker

2017

Plankton Salesmen as Self (archive footage)
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life as Self
Buena Vista Social Club: Adios ... (Executive Producer)
The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov as Self

2016

Along for the Ride as Self
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez ... (Director)
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider as Self
National Bird ... (Executive Producer)
Three for the Road as Self

2015

Every Thing Will Be Fine ... (Director)
French Cinema Mon Amour as Self
The Legend of the Palme d'Or as Self
Our Last Tango ... (Executive Producer)
Filmstudio, mon amour as Sé stesso
Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen as Self
Restoring Time as Self
Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany as Self
Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain as Self
A Weekend at the Beach as Self

2014

The Salt of the Earth as Self
Henri Langlois vu par... as Self
Cathedrals of Culture ... (Director)
Cathedrals of Culture: Halden Prison ... (Executive Producer)
The Berlin Philharmonic ... (Director)

2013

A Fuller Life as Self - Reader (segment "A River of Tears")
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction as Self
Invisible World ... (Director)
Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle ... (Executive Producer)
Über Gott, Alfi und Mexico ... (Producer)

2012

Stories We Tell ... (Thanks)
Close Up as Self (archive footage)
BAM150 as Self
Ver ou Não Ver ... (Director)
Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas as Self
Der fremde Fotograf und die Einsamkeit ... (Script Supervisor)

2011

The Story of Film: An Odyssey as Self
Schawinski as Self
Pina ... (Director)
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard as Self
Hitler in Hollywood as Wim Wenders
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter as Self
Viaggio in Bergmania as Self
Zwischen den Zeiten

2010

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

2009

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

2008

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

2007

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

2006

The House Is Burning ... (Executive Producer)
The Art of Football from A to Z as Self
Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski as Self
The Way I Spent the End of the World ... (Associate Producer)

2005

Don't Come Knocking ... (Director)
Egoshooter ... (Producer)

2004

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

2003

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

2002

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

2001

Janela da Alma as Self

2000

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

1999

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

1998

The Johannes B. Kerner Show as Self
City of Angels ... (Original Film Writer)
Sabine Christiansen as Self
Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show as Self
Willie Nelson at the Teatro ... (Director)
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
Beyond the Clouds ... (Screenplay)
Lumière & Company ... (Director)
A Trick of the Light as Regisseur / Milchmann
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive as Self (uncredited)
The Night of the Filmmakers as Self
In Bildern leben - Die filmischen Reflexionen des Wim Wenders as Self

1994

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

1993

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

1992

Riverboat as Self
Morgenmagazin as Self

1991

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

1990

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

1989

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

1988

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

1987

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

1985

Room 666 as Self
Tokyo-Ga ... (Director)
King Kongs Faust as Regisseur
Report from Hollywood
I Played It for You ... (Additional Photography)

1984

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

1983

Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act as Himself

1982

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

1980

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

1979

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

1978

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

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

1974

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

1973

The Scarlet Letter ... (Director)

1972

Summer in the City as Billardspieler (uncredited)

1969

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