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Leaflet | © OpenMapTiles © OpenStreetMap contributors. Wenders was born in Düsseldorf into a traditional Catholic family. His father, Heinrich Wenders, was a surgeon. Use of the Dutch name, "Wim", a shortened version of the baptismal name "Wilhelm/Willem", reflected his mother's Dutch provenance, but the Dutch version was rejected by the ...
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (German: [ˈvɪm ˈvɛndɐs]; 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.
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- Ernst Wilhelm Wenders, 14 August 1945 (age 78), Düsseldorf, Germany
Director: Wings of Desire. Wim Wenders is an Oscar-nominated German filmmaker who was born Ernst Wilhelm Wenders on August 14, 1945 in Düsseldorf, which then was located in the British Occupation Zone of what became the Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany, known colloquially as West Germany until reunification).
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Heinrich Wenders Birth 1839 Death 1899 (aged 59–60) Burial. Nordfriedhof. Düsseldorf ...
Dec 2, 2023 · Sat Dec 2 2023 - 05:15. I was supposed to meet Wim Wenders, durable survivor of the German new wave, at London Film Festival in October. At the last minute he had to cancel because of a medical...
May 13, 2023 · Wim Wenders. Forty years on from ‘Paris, Texas’: Wim Wenders tells the story of the making of his masterpiece about the West and sadness. The German director won the Palme d’Or at Cannes...
The Cinema of Wim Wenders, the first anthology of scholarly work on Wenders, is a unique anthropology of source materials and selected critical essays on the films of Wim Wenders, a major...
