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Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders is a German filmmaker and photographer. Regarded as a major figure of New German Cinema and widely considered an auteur director, he has received various accolades, including a BAFTA Award, a Palme d'Or, a Golden Lion, and an Honorary Golden Bear, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, an Emmy Award, and a Grammy Award.
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entertainment · German filmmaker (born 1945) · film director · actor · photographer · screenwriter · university teacher · film producer · director · also Wim Wenders, Vimu Vendâsu, Ernst Wilhelm Wenders, Vimu Vendasu, Wenders
Born 14 August 1945 · Q55411
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2026· 14 entries
“s already at work casting a family drama — to be filmed in 3-D. Related NPR Stories Movies Bob Mondello Picks The Year”
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“s limited ability to see 3-D now, Wenders has no plans to shoot in 2-D ever again.”
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“but we realized there was a film to be made for Pina.”
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“Between dance and film, there was a difficulty. And there was always like an invisible wall. And I couldn”
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“Pina Bausch showed me in 40 minutes more about men and women than the entire history of cinema.”
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“Immodest in her work, but modest about herself.”
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Far Out Magazine: The “totally mutilated” 1991 movie Wim Wenders hated for 25 years: “I can finally show people”
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Yahoo: Wenders cuts scene with nude 13-year-old Nastassja Kinski from film
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The Guardian: Wim Wenders withdraws 1975 film featuring 13-year-old Nastassja Kinski topless
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Yahoo: Wim Wenders withdraws 1975 film over nude scene featuring 13-year-old
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The Guardian: Berlin film festival defends Wim Wenders after Arundhati Roy attacked ‘jaw-dropping’ comments
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The Guardian: Arundhati Roy is right, not Wim Wenders – here are eight films that have changed politics
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The Guardian: ‘Movies can change the world but not in a political way’ says Wim Wenders
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2025· 2 entries
Deadline.com: Wim Wenders Announced As Berlinale 2026 Jury President
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Wenders made a short film called "The Keys to Freedom" in Reims, France
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2024· 7 entries
Awarded Berliner Bär (2024).
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Awarded European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (2024).
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The Guardian: Tokyo offers toilet tours amid flush of excitement over Wim Wenders’s Oscar hopeful
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The Guardian: Perfect Days review – Wim Wenders’s zen Japanese drama is his best feature film in years
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The Guardian: ‘If God is in everything, that includes toilets’: Kōji Yakusho on cleaning high-art loos in Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days
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The Guardian: ‘All my films deal with how to live’: Wim Wenders on Herzog, spirituality and shooting a movie in 16 days
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Nippon: Wim Wenders and Yakusho Kōji Take Film to the Toilet with “Perfect Days”
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2023· 4 entries
The Guardian: Anselm review – Wim Wenders’s immersive documentary is a treat for art lovers
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Variety: Wim Wenders Foundation Broken Down by Wenders Himself: ‘I Had to Take the Idea of Profit Out of the Producer-Audience Relationship’
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IndieWire: Telluride Pays Tribute to Wim Wenders — At Last
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The Guardian: Perfect Days review – Wim Wenders explores a quiet life in Tokyo
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2020· 1 entry
Two or Three Things I Know About Edward Hopper
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2019· 1 entry
Wenders acted as executive producer for his former assistant director Luca Lucchesi's documentary A Black Jesus, which has similar themes to Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
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2017· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Order of Merit of Portugal (2017).
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2016· 2 entries
"The Space Between the Characters Can Carry the Load", Collection Ivo Wessel, Weserburg Museum for modern Art, Bremen, DE
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Received the Großer Kulturpreis of the Sparkassen Culture-Foundation Rhineland
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2015· 3 entries
Won Honorary Golden Bear (2015).
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Awarded César Award for Best Documentary Film (2015).
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Wenders collaborated with artist/journalist and longtime friend Melinda Camber Porter on a documentary feature about his body of work, Wim Wenders – Visions on Film
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2014· 3 entries
Awarded Un certain regard Award (2014).
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Awarded François Chalais Prize (2014).
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Awarded Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Cannes for The Salt of the Earth (2014).
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded Ring of Honour of the city Wuppertal (2012).
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While promoting his 3-D dance film Pina, Wenders told the Documentary channel blog that he had begun work on a new 3-D documentary about architecture
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded European Film Award for Best Documentary for Pina (2011).
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Wenders was selected to stage the 2013 cycle of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Herbert Strate Award (2010).
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2009· 1 entry
Wenders signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges, which the petition argued would undermine the tradit
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2008· 3 entries
Awarded Goya Awards (2008).
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Awarded Goya Award for Best Documentary Film for Invisibles (2007 film) (2008).
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Won 5th Yerevan Golden Apricot International Film Festival (2008).
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2006).
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Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (2006).
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2005· 2 entries
Awarded Leopard of Honour (2005).
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Won Golden Medal for Merit to Culture (2005).
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia (2004).
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Awarded Helmut Käutner Prize (2004).
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded Robert-Bresson Award (2002).
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Directed a documentary about the German rock group BAP called Viel passiert (A lot has happened)
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2000· 1 entry
Earned Silver Bear (2000).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded European Film Award for Best Documentary for Buena Vista Social Club (1999).
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1997· 1 entry
Wenders directed the American drama film The End of Violence, starring Bill Pullman, Andie MacDowell, and Gabriel Byrne
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1995· 1 entry
Directed both A Trick of Light and the anthology film Lumière and Company
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1993).
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Awarded Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix for Faraway, So Close! (1993).
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1991· 1 entry
Wenders directed the science fiction adventure drama Until the End of the World, starring William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Max Von Sydow and Jeanne Moreau
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1989· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (1989).
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Career landmark: President of the Jury at the Cannes Festival (1989–1989).
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The University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in 1995, and the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, in 2005
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded European Film Award for Best Director for Wings of Desire (1988).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Cannes Best Director Award for Wings of Desire (1987).
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1985· 3 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Direction for Paris, Texas (1985).
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“And the first time I ever saw the Pina Bausch company perform, my girlfriend really, literally dragged me.”
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“s work in 1985. The evening inspired a decades-long collaboration with her. IFC Films hide caption toggle caption IFC Films Director Wim Wenders says he was thoroughly uninterested in dance — until seeing Bausch”
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1984· 3 entries
Awarded Palme d'Or for Paris, Texas (1984).
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Awarded FIPRESCI Prize of the Festival de Cannes (1984).
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Awarded Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Cannes for Paris, Texas (1984).
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1982· 1 entry
Won Golden Lion for The State of Things (1982).
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1977· 1 entry
Wenders gained prominence for directing the neo-noir The American Friend, starring Dennis Hopper and Bruno Ganz
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded FIPRESCI Prize of the Festival de Cannes (1976).
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1970· 1 entry
Studied at University of Television and Film Munich (1967–1970).
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1967· 1 entry
To work in the Düsseldorf office of United Artists
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1945· 2 entries
Born 1945-08-14.
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And comments "These are the keys to the freedom of the world"
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