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Wim Wenders «Tokyo-Ga»
Wim Wenders, «Tokyo-Ga», 1985
© Wim Wenders
 


 
 
Japan | 92' | Concept: Wenders, Wim | Director: Wenders, Wim | Camera: Lachmann, Ed | Music: Tracy, Dick; Petitgand, Laurent | Participants: Ryu, Chishu; Atsuta, Yuharu; Herzog, Werner | Edition / Production: Sievernich, Chris; Wenders, Wim; Roadmovies Filmproduction Berlin | 16mm/35mm-film
 

 Wim Wenders

born 1945 in Düsseldorf (D); studies in medicine (1963-64) and philosophy (1964-65) in Munich, Freiburg and Düsseldorf. However, he interrupted his education and moved to Paris in October of 1966, where he studied painting and worked as an engraver in an atelier in Montmarte. He also attended the Cinematheque Francaise regularly. In 1967 entered the Hochschule für Fernsehen and Film (Graduate School of Film and Television) in Munich. Between 1967 and 1970, he contributed to the film review «FilmKritik» and to the Munich daily newspaper "Süddeutsche Zeitung. He graduated from the Hochschule with his first feature film «Summer in the City» (1970) but he really began his professional career in 1971 with his next film, «The Goalkeepers Fear of the Penalty Kick,» based on the book of the same name by Peter Handke.
From 1991 to 1996 he was the appointed Chairman of the European Film Academy and was subsequently elected as its president. Since 1993 he has been teaching as an honorary professor at the HFF (Academy of Film and Television) in Munich.
Lives in Berlin and Los Angeles.

(Source: Wenders Homepage: http://www.wim-wenders.com/bio)