Wings of Desire
1987
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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. [1] Among the honors he has received are prizes from the Cannes, Venice and Berlin film festivals.
- Filmmaker, director, screenwriter, playwright, author, photographer
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- 1967–present
- Ernst Wilhelm Wenders, 14 August 1945 (age 78), Düsseldorf, Germany
Since the mid-1990s, Wenders has distinguished himself as a non-fiction filmmaker, directing several highly acclaimed documentaries, most notably Buena Vista Social Club (1999) and Pina (2011), both of which brought him Oscar nominations.
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Feb 10, 2024 · NPR's Scott Simon talks to the German film director Wim Wenders about his new, Oscar-nominated film. "Perfect Days" is a story about a cultured Japanese toilet cleaner in Tokyo.
Dec 10, 2023 · Partway through the 1989 documentary “Notebook on Cities and Clothes,” Wim Wenders reveals the philosophy that underpins his art. “Filmmaking should just be a way of life,” he says,...
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Apr 27, 2024 · Wim Wenders, German film director who was one of the principal members of the New German Cinema of the 1970s. He directed fictional films and documentaries. Some of Wenders’s best-known works included Wings of Desire (1987), Buena Vista Social Club (1999), and The Salt of the Earth (2014).
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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).
