Name
Wim Wenders
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1945-08-14 (81 years old)
Place of Birth
Düsseldorf, Germany
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.
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- 1985 King Kongs Faust as Regisseur
- 2008 Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte as Self
- 1976 Kings of the Road as Spectator at Pauline's Theater (uncredited)
- 2008 Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers as Self
- 2022 Film: The Living Record of Our Memory as Self
- 2003 Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us as Self
- 1980 Lightning Over Water as Self
- 2001 Janela da Alma as Self
- 2012 Close Up as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 Die 2050er - Everything will change
- 2010 Snowblind as Gray Fox
- 2023 Room 999 as Self
- 1968 Candy Man
- 1993 Without Me as Himself
- 2000 The Million Dollar Hotel
- 2011 Hitler in Hollywood as Wim Wenders
- 2004 La torcedura
- 1991 Dream Island
- 1997 Tango Berlin
- 2002 Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet as Doctor #1 (segment "Twelve Miles to Trona")
- 2010 Cronología
- 2011 Zwischen den Zeiten
- 2023 Cannes Uncut as Self
- 1989 Notebook on Cities and Clothes as Self
- 2013 Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction as Self
- 1985 Report from Hollywood
- 2011 Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter as Self
- 1993 Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring as Santa Claus
- 1990 Pictures of Europe as Self
- 1995 The Night of the Filmmakers as Self
- 2021 Why Are We (Not) Creative? as Self
- 2008 One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years as Self
- 2011 Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
- 2002 Fassbinder in Hollywood as Self
- 1978 Cinématon as N°212
- 2022 From Our Side
- 2004 Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen as Self
- 2022 Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors as Self
- 2022 CAN and Me as Self
- 2014 The Salt of the Earth as Self
- 2012 BAM150 as Self
- 2019 Zeroville as Larry
- 2003 Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die) as Self
- 2015 Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen as Self
- 2022 Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer as Self
- 1989 The Heart and the Legs as Self
- 1983 Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act as Himself
- 1982 Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982 as Self
- 2004 Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments as Self
- 2008 Back to Room 666 as Self
- 2022 Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary as Self
- 2006 Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski as Self
- 1994 Kleiner Mann ganz groß as Self
- 2015 Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain as Self
- 2012 Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas as Self
- 2015 French Cinema Mon Amour as Self
- 2011 Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard as Self
- 1985 Room 666 as Self
- 1995 To Make a Film Is to Be Alive as Self (uncredited)
- 2016 Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider as Self
- 1975 The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick as Man Walking through Vienna Bus Station (uncredited)
- 1969 3 American LPs
- 2013 A Fuller Life as Self - Reader (segment "A River of Tears")
- 1993 Talking with Ozu as Self
- 2017 Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life as Self
- 2015 The Legend of the Palme d'Or as Self
- 1972 Summer in the City as Billardspieler (uncredited)
- 1990 Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas' as Self
- 1976 Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema as Self
- 2008 Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada as Self
- 1978 Long Shot as Another Director
- 2016 Along for the Ride as Self
- 2008 Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years as Self
- 1982 The State of Things as Tram Passenger (uncredited)
- 1994 Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait as Self
- 2017 The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov as Self
- 2018 Living the Light: Robby Müller as Self
- 1990 Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders as Self
- 1988 Alekan, la lumière as Self
- 1968 Love and So Forth as Student
- 2011 Viaggio in Bergmania as Self
- 2007 Cannes: All Access as Self
- 2000 FreeDogme as himself
- 2015 Restoring Time as Self
- 2019 Paul Auster: What If as Self - Filmmaker
- 1984 Tausend Augen as Dieb im Videoladen
- 1990 Wim Wenders in Tokyo as Self
- 2015 Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany as Self
- 2018 Beyond the Bolex as Self
- 1998 Alekan le magnifique as Self
- 2014 Henri Langlois vu par... as Self
- 2006 The Art of Football from A to Z as Self
- 2021 Now as Self
- 2016 Three for the Road as Self
- 1995 A Trick of the Light as Regisseur / Milchmann
- 2020 Wim Wenders, Desperado as Self
- 2020 Veränderung as Self
- 2018 Pope Francis: A Man of His Word as Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1982 Cinématon XXII as N°212
- 1996 Love in Hollywood as Self
- 1974 Alice in the Cities as Man by Jukebox in American Cafe (uncredited)
- 1975 Wrong Move as Man in Dining Car (uncredited)
- 1987 Helsinki Napoli All Night Long as Gas Station Attendant
- 1977 The American Friend as Figure Wrapped in Plaster Bandages in Ambulance (uncredited)
- 2021 A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner as Self
- 2020 Good Morning, the Wind Blows as Self
- 1982 Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders
- 2009 What Do You Know About Me as Self
- 2020 High Maintenance as Self
- 2024 Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days' as Self
- 2018 Why Are We Creative? as Self
- 2025 The Keys to Freedom as Wim Wenders
- 2015 A Weekend at the Beach as Self
- 2025 The Ozu Diaries as Self
- 2025 Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende as Self
- 1995 In Bildern leben - Die filmischen Reflexionen des Wim Wenders as Self
- 2018 Leçon de cinéma avec Wim Wenders as Self - filmmaker
- 2025 La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
- 2025 Films to Die For as Self - Interviewee
- 2017 Plankton Salesmen as Self (archive footage)
- 2015 Filmstudio, mon amour as Sé stesso
- 1984 De droomproducenten as Self
- 1998 Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2011 The Story of Film: An Odyssey ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1995 Die Harald Schmidt Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2004 Leçon de Cinéma ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1974 Spécial cinéma ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1951 German Film Award ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 1984 Goldene Kamera ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1948 Bambi ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2011 Schawinski ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2018 Was tut sich - im deutschen Film? ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1979 Bavarian Film Awards ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1999 Volle Kanne ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1992 Riverboat ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1998 The Johannes B. Kerner Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1976 Kölner Treff ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1975 Midi Première ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1987 Nachtcafé ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1998 Sabine Christiansen ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1979 NDR Talk Show ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1982 Wortwechsel ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2004 Kulturplatz ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1987 live - die ZDF-talkshow ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1997 Nachtstudio ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2023 Directors Talks ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1982 Menschen ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2004 Im Palais ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2007 Dickes B ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1997 Im Dialog ( 1 episode ) as self
- 2010 Westpol ( 1 episode ) as self
- 2003 ZIBB ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2023 German Genius ( 1 episode ) as Wim Wenders
- 2020 Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 1992 Morgenmagazin ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2026 Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2018 Konbini Vidéo Club ( 1 episode )
