Wim Wenders — Director (41)
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The State of Things (1982)
Der Stand der Dinge
维姆·文德斯 actor: Isabelle Weingarten / 丽贝卡·保利 …
other title: 事物的状态 / Der Stand der Dinge
故事发生在葡萄牙的海边，一个电影剧组正在这里翻拍罗杰·柯曼的名作《世界末日》，新版本的电影在拍摄过程中却遇到了各种困难。导演不知道为何没有了资金来源，电影面临被迫停拍的命运。导演试图联系到在洛衫机的制片人，以便可以对所有人员有一个交代，但是不知为何却找不到人。他费劲心思希望可以改变不得不停拍的命运，然而，世事总不如人所料，他感到十分无奈。该片情节很简单，但是却耐人寻味，整个电影都沉迷在一种神秘的意蕴中。
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Pina (2011)
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Wim Wenders actor: Regina Advento / Malou Airaudo …
Pina is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009.
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Palermo Shooting (2008)
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Wim Wenders actor: Campino / Inga Busch …
other title: Rendez-vous à Palerme
After the wild lifestyle of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman calm him down?
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The State of Things (1982)
Der Stand der Dinge
Wim actor: Isabelle Weingarten / Rebecca Pauly …
other title: Lo stato delle cose / O Estado das Coisas …
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.
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To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence
Theodoros Angelopoulos / Olivier Assayas … actor: Golshifteh Farahani / Gina Clayton …
other title: A ciascuno il suo cinema / Cada um o seu Cinema …
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
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Kings of the Road (1976)
Im Lauf der Zeit
Wim Wenders actor: Rüdiger Vogler / Hanns Zischler …
other title: Nel corso del tempo / Ao Correr do Tempo …
Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their differences.
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Alice in the Cities (1974)
Alice in den Städten
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Wim Wenders actor: Rüdiger Vogler / Yella Rottländer …
other title: Alice nelle città / Alice i byerne …
German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to Germany, and while trying to book a flight, encounters a German woman and her nine year old daughter Alice doing the same. The three become friends (almost out of necessity) and while the mother asks Winter to mind Alice temporarily, it quickly becomes apparent that Alice will be his responsibility for longer than he expected.
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Wrong Move (1975)
Falsche Bewegung
Wim Wenders actor: Rüdiger Vogler / Hans Christian Blech …
other title: Falso movimento / Movimento em Falso …
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change.
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The American Friend (1977)
Der amerikanische Freund
Wim Wenders actor: Dennis Hopper / Bruno Ganz …
other title: L'amico americano / Den amerikanske ven …
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.
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The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1975)
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Wim Wenders actor: Arthur Brauss / Kai Fischer …
other title: Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter / 再次犯规 …
Goalkeeper Josef Bloch is sent off after committing a foul during an away game. This causes him to lose his bearings, and he wanders aimlessly through the city streets and spends the night with the box-office attendant of a movie theatre.
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Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
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Wim Wenders / Jim Jarmusch … actor: Markku Peltola / Kati Outinen …
Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas McClintock as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the Millennium. Fifteen celebrated film-makers were invited to create their own vision of what time means in ten minutes of film.
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The Salt of the Earth (2014)
Le sel de la terre
Juliano Ribeiro Salgado / Wim Wenders actor: Sebastião Salgado / Wim Wenders …
other title: Il sale della terra / O Sal da Terra …
During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our recent history: international conflicts, starvations and exodus… He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of the wild fauna and flora, of grandiose landscapes: a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty. Salgado's life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who went with him during his last journeys, and by Wim Wenders, a photographer himself.
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Until the End of the World (1991)
Bis ans Ende der Welt
Wim Wenders actor: Solveig Dommartin / William Hurt …
other title: Fino alla fine del mondo / Até ao Fim do Mundo …
In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law — an American doctor on the run from the CIA. They want to confiscate his father's invention — a device which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions.
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Anselm (2023)
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维姆·文德斯 actor: Anselm Kiefer / DANIEL KIEFER …
other title: 安塞姆·基弗：流年之声 / Anselm (Das Rauschen der Zeit) …
This unique cinematic experience dives deep into an artist’s work and reveals his life path, inspiration, and creative process. It explores his fascination with myth and history. Past and present are interwoven to diffuse the line between film and painting, allowing the audience to be completely immersed in the remarkable world of one of the greatest contemporary artists, Anselm Kiefer. Wim Wenders shot this unique portrait over the course of two years in stunning 3D.
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Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
Buena Vista Social Club
Wim Wenders actor: Compay Segundo / Eliades Ochoa …
In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians (some in their 90s) to record a Grammy-winning CD in their native city of Havana. The result is a spectacular compilation of concert footage from the group's gigs in Amsterdam and New York City's famed Carnegie Hall, with director Wim Wenders capturing not only the music — but also the musicians' life stories.