Wim Wenders Biography

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NAME: Wim Wenders
OCCUPATION: Director
BIRTH DATE: August 14, 1945 (Age: 67)
EDUCATION: Munich Film Academy
PLACE OF BIRTH: Dusseldorf, Germany
Originally: Ernst Wilhelm Winders
ZODIAC SIGN: Leo

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Wim Wenders is a German film director who, along with Fassbinder and Herzog, was one of the principal members of the New German Cinema of the 1970s.

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Wim Wenders achieved international fame with his 1984 film, Paris, Texas, which won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1987 he received the best-director award at Cannes for the hauntingly beautiful Der Himmel über Berlin (Eng. title Wings of Desire), in which angels roam modern-day Berlin. The film was noted, as are all his films, for its lush visual imagery.

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