Wim Wenders
146 movies · 4 TV shows
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Aug 14, 1945 (age 81)
- Place of birth
- Düsseldorf, Germany
- Also known as
- Vimu Vendâsu · 文溫德斯 · 빔 벤더스 · Вим Вендерс
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).
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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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Known for
Wim Wenders: movies and TV shows
Acting (37)
- 2025
- 2025 The Keys to Freedom
as Wim Wenders
- 2023
- 2022
- 2022
- 2019 Zeroville
as Larry
- 2015 Filmstudio, mon amour
as Sé stesso
- 2011 Hitler in Hollywood
as Wim Wenders
- 2011
- 2011
- 2010 Snowblind
as Gray Fox
- 2010
- 2004
- 2002 Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
as Doctor #1 (segment "Twelve Miles to Trona")
- 2000
- 1997
- 1995 A Trick of the Light
as Regisseur / Milchmann
- 1993 Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
as Santa Claus
- 1991
- 1987 Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
as Gas Station Attendant
- 1985 King Kongs Faust
as Regisseur
- 1985
- 1984 Tausend Augen
as Dieb im Videoladen
- 1982 Cinématon XXII
as N°212
- 1982
- 1982 The State of Things
as Tram Passenger (uncredited)
- 1978 Cinématon
as N°212
- 1978 Long Shot
as Another Director
- 1977 The American Friend
as Figure Wrapped in Plaster Bandages in Ambulance (uncredited)
- 1976 Kings of the Road
as Spectator at Pauline's Theater (uncredited)
- 1975 The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
as Man Walking through Vienna Bus Station (uncredited)
- 1975 Wrong Move
as Man in Dining Car (uncredited)
- 1974 Alice in the Cities
as Man by Jukebox in American Cafe (uncredited)
- 1972 Summer in the City
as Billardspieler (uncredited)
- 1969
- 1968 Love and So Forth
as Student
- 1968
Behind the camera (136)
- Upcoming
- Upcoming Sound of Ice
Executive Producer
- Upcoming Return to Timbuktu
Executive Producer
- Upcoming Echoes of Light
Executive Producer
- Upcoming Untitled Wim Wenders Science Fiction Film
Director, Writer
- Upcoming Truth:Beauty
Executive Producer
- 2026 I'll Be Gone in June
Producer
- 2025 The Keys to Freedom
Director, Writer
- 2025 From Darkness to Light
Executive Producer
- 2023 Perfect Days
Producer, Director, Screenplay
- 2023 Some Body Comes Into the Light
Director, Producer
- 2023 Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party
Producer
- 2023 Anselm
Director, Writer, Producer
- 2023 An Endless Sunday
Co-Producer
- 2023 Songs of Earth
Executive Producer
- 2022 Roving Woman
Executive Producer
- 2022 Présence
Director
- 2021 Karen Dalton: In My Own Time
Executive Producer
- 2021 Souad
Co-Producer
- 2021 Reality Winner
Executive Producer
- 2020 A Black Jesus
Producer
- 2020 Veränderung
Director, Writer
- 2020 Two or Three Things I Know about Edward Hopper
Writer, Executive Producer, Producer, Director
- 2019 Waiting for the Miracle to Come
Executive Producer
- 2018 It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
Executive Producer
- 2018 Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
Writer, Director, Producer
- 2018 Little Hands
Executive Producer
- 2018 Submergence
Director
- 2017 Buena Vista Social Club: Adios
Executive Producer
- 2016 The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
Director, Writer, Producer
- 2016 National Bird
Executive Producer
- 2015 Our Last Tango
Executive Producer
- 2015 Every Thing Will Be Fine
Director
- 2014 The Salt of the Earth
Director, Writer, Still Photographer, Executive Producer
- 2014 Henri Langlois vu par...
Director
- 2014 Cathedrals of Culture
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
- 2014 Cathedrals of Culture: Halden Prison
Executive Producer
- 2014 The Berlin Philharmonic
Director
- 2013 Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle
Executive Producer
- 2013 Invisible World
Director, Writer
- 2013 Über Gott, Alfi und Mexico
Producer
- 2012 Ver ou Não Ver
Director
- 2012 Stories We Tell
Thanks
- 2012 Der fremde Fotograf und die Einsamkeit
Script Supervisor
- 2011 Pina
Screenplay, Director, Producer
- 2010 If Buildings Could Talk
Writer, Director
- 2010 Au Revoir Taipei
Executive Producer
- 2010 Il Volo
Director, Writer
- 2009 Passage
Thanks
- 2009 The Open Road
Executive Producer
- 2008 Palermo Shooting
Director, Writer, Producer
- 2008 8
Director, Writer
- 2008 Person to Person
Director
- 2008 The Clone Returns Home
Executive Producer
- 2007 To Each His Own Cinema
Director
- 2007 Invisibles
Writer, Director
- 2007 Invisible Crimes
Director
- 2006 The House Is Burning
Executive Producer
- 2006 The Way I Spent the End of the World
Associate Producer
- 2005 Don't Come Knocking
Director, Executive Producer, Writer
- 2005 Egoshooter
Producer
- 2004 Land of Plenty
Screenplay, Director
- 2004 Música Cubana
Producer
- 2004 Half the Rent
Producer
- 2004 La torcedura
Producer
- 2003
- 2003 Fools
Producer
- 2003 The Soul of a Man
Director, Writer, Camera Operator
- 2003 Fools
Producer
- 2002 June Moon
Producer
- 2002 Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Director, Writer
- 2002 Three Days of Rain
Presenter
- 2002 BAP - Ode to Cologne
Director, Writer
- 2000 The Million Dollar Hotel
Director, Producer
- 2000 In the Shadow of Hollywood
Archival Footage Research
- 1999 Buena Vista Social Club
Director, Screenplay
- 1998 City of Angels
Original Film Writer
- 1998 Willie Nelson at the Teatro
Writer, Director
- 1997 The End of Violence
Producer, Director, Story
- 1997 Go for Gold!
Producer
- 1995 Lumière & Company
Director
- 1995 A Trick of the Light
Director, Writer, Producer
- 1995 Beyond the Clouds
Screenplay, Still Photographer, Co-Director
- 1994 Lisbon Story
Director, Producer, Screenplay
- 1993 Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
- 1993 Adamski
Thanks
- 1993 Faraway, So Close!
Screenplay, Producer, Director
- 1993 The Absence
Producer
- 1991 Until the End of the World
Director, Co-Producer, Story, Screenplay
- 1991 Dream Island
Producer
- 1990
- 1990 Speaking Parts
Thanks
- 1989 Notebook on Cities and Clothes
Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
- 1988 Chocolat
Co-Producer
- 1988 The Passenger – Welcome to Germany
Consulting Producer
- 1987 Sansibar oder Der letzte Grund
Sound Mix Technician
- 1987 Wings of Desire
Director, Producer, Screenplay
- 1987 Iron Earth, Copper Sky
Producer
- 1985 I Played It for You
Additional Photography
- 1985 Tokyo-Ga
Director, Editor, Writer, Producer
- 1985 Room 666
Director, Writer
- 1984 Paris, Texas
Director, Producer
- 1982 Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
Director, Producer, Writer
- 1982 Hammett
Director
- 1982 The State of Things
Director, Producer, Writer
- 1982
- 1980 Lightning Over Water
Writer, Director, Producer, Editor
- 1980 Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Additional Camera
- 1979 Radio On
Associate Producer
- 1979 ...als Diesel geboren
Producer
- 1979 Nicholas Ray: Especially for Pierre
Camera Operator, Director of Photography, Producer, Sound
- 1978 The Left-Handed Woman
Producer
- 1977 The American Friend
Screenplay, Director, Producer
- 1976 Kings of the Road
Director, Producer, Screenplay
- 1975 The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Director, Writer, Producer
- 1975 Wrong Move
Director, Producer
- 1974 Ein bißchen Liebe
Producer
- 1974 From the Family of Reptiles
Director
- 1974 The Island
Director
- 1974 Alice in the Cities
Screenplay, Director, Producer
- 1974
- 1973 The Scarlet Letter
Director, Writer, Producer
- 1972 Summer in the City
Director, Producer, Writer
- 1969 3 American LPs
Director, Editor
- 1969 Polizeifilm
Writer, Director, Editor, Director of Photography
- 1969
- 1969 Amon Duul II: Plays Phallus Dei
Director of Photography
- 1969 Ten Years After
Director of Photography
- 1969 Kaspar Hauser
Director
- 1969 Der Fall Lena Christ
Unit Manager
- 1969 Silver City Revisited
Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer
- 1969 Alabama (2000 Light Years)
Writer, Editor, Director, Sound
- 1968 Same Player Shoots Again
Director, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography, Writer
- 1968 Klappenfilm
Producer, Director
- 1968 Victor I.
Director
- 1967 Schauplätze
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
Talk shows and appearances (112)
- 2026 Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
1 episode
- 2025
- 2025
- 2025
- 2024
- 2023
- 2023 Directors Talks
1 episode
- 2023
- 2022
- 2022
- 2022
- 2022
- 2022
- 2021
- 2021
- 2021
- 2020 Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
4 episodes
- 2020
- 2020
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018
- 2018
- 2018
- 2018 Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
1 episode
- 2018
- 2017
- 2017
- 2017
- 2016
- 2016
- 2016
- 2015
- 2015
- 2015
- 2015
- 2015
- 2015
- 2015
- 2013
- 2013
- 2012
- 2012
- 2012
- 2011
- 2011 The Story of Film: An Odyssey
1 episode
- 2011 Schawinski
1 episode
- 2011
- 2011
- 2010 Westpol
1 episode
- 2009
- 2008
- 2008
- 2008
- 2008
- 2008
- 2008
- 2007 Dickes B
1 episode
- 2007
- 2006
- 2006
- 2004
- 2004 Kulturplatz
1 episode
- 2004 Im Palais
1 episode
- 2004
- 2004 Leçon de Cinéma
1 episode
- 2003 ZIBB
1 episode
- 2003
- 2003
- 2002
- 2002
- 2001
- 2000
- 1999 Volle Kanne
3 episodes
- 1998
- 1998 Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show
1 episode
- 1998 The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1 episode
- 1998 Sabine Christiansen
1 episode
- 1997 Nachtstudio
1 episode
- 1997 Im Dialog
1 episode
- 1996
- 1995 Die Harald Schmidt Show
2 episodes
- 1995
- 1995
- 1995
- 1994
- 1994
- 1993
- 1993
- 1992 Morgenmagazin
1 episode
- 1992 Riverboat
1 episode
- 1990
- 1990
- 1990
- 1990
- 1989
- 1988
- 1987 live - die ZDF-talkshow
1 episode
- 1987 Nachtcafé
1 episode
- 1984 Goldene Kamera
1 episode
- 1984
- 1983
- 1982 Menschen
1 episode
- 1982 Wortwechsel
1 episode
- 1979 Bavarian Film Awards
3 episodes
- 1979 NDR Talk Show
3 episodes
- 1976
- 1976 Kölner Treff
2 episodes
- 1975 Midi Première
1 episode
- 1974 Spécial cinéma
3 episodes
- 1951 German Film Award
4 episodes
- 1948 Bambi
1 episode