Wim Wenders
Gender: Male
Born: 14th August 1945 (currently 66 years old)
Nationality: Germany
Movies: 8, A Trick of Light, Alice in the Cities, Beyond the Clouds, Buena Vista Social Club, Don't Come Knocking, Faraway, So Close!, Hammett, Invisibles, Kings of the Road, Land of Plenty, Lightning Over Water, Lisbon Story, Lumière and Company, Notebook on Cities and Clothes, Paris, Texas, Pina, Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter, Reverse Angle, Room 666, Soul of a Man, Summer in the City, Ten Minutes Older, The American Friend, The End of Violence, The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty, The Million Dollar Hotel, The Palermo Shooting, The Scarlet Letter, The State of Things, The Wrong Move, To Each His Own Cinema, Tokyo-Ga, Until the End of the World, Viel Passiert - Der Bap-Film, Wings of Desire
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (born 14 August 1945) is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer. Since 1996, Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy in Berlin.
Wenders was born in Düsseldorf into a traditional Catholic family. His father, Heinrich Wenders, was a surgeon. Use of the Dutch name, "Wim", a shortened version of the baptismal name "Wilhelm/Willem", reflected his mother's Dutch provenance, but the Dutch version was rejected by the civil registration authorities in 1945 as "unGerman". He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine (1963–64) and philosophy (1964–65) in Freiburg and Düsseldorf. However, he dropped out of university studies and moved to Paris in October 1966 to become a painter. Wenders failed his entry test at France's national film school IDHEC (now La Fémis), and instead became an engraver in the studio of Johnny Friedlander, an American artist, in Montparnasse. During this time, Wenders became fascinated with cinema, and saw up to five movies a day at the local movie theater.
Set on making his obsession also his life's work, Wenders returned to Germany in 1967 to work
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