Wim Wenders
German filmmaker (born 1945)
- Fame65.5
- Momentum25.0
- Directors rank#148
- Fame65.5
- Momentum25.0
- Directors rank#148
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He turned wandering into a cinematic language — empty highways, drifters in transit, cities at twilight — and made the road movie something closer to philosophy than genre.
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Born Wilhelm Ernst Wenders on 14 August 1945, he emerged as a major figure of New German Cinema with his feature debut Summer in the City in 1970. He built his reputation on a trilogy of drifter films — Alice in the Cities (1974), The Wrong Move (1975), and Kings of the Road (1976) — that mapped loneliness across Europe's margins. Paris, Texas (1984) won him the Palme d'Or and a BAFTA, then Wings of Desire (1987) took Cannes Best Director for its angels watching over a divided Berlin. His documentary work earned three Oscar nominations: Buena Vista Social Club (1999), Pina (2011), and The Salt…
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- German Film Honorary Award
- Berliner Bär
- European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award
- Praemium Imperiale
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