The Goalkeeper’s Anguish at the Penalty / Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmete

Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders (born 1945) is a German director, screenwriter, producer and photographer. Son of a surgeon, he first studied medicine and philosophy. But in 1966-67, after a year in Paris spent mainly at the French cinémathèque, he returned to Germany and enrolled in a film school. In the early 1970s, he regularly wrote reviews and joined forces with other directors of the New German Cinema to produce, direct and distribute their films independently. He founded his own production company in 1974 and the rest is history. Twenty-five films to date, including the now classic Paris, Texas (1984) and Wings of Desire (1987). Wim Wenders met Peter Handke at a short film festival when they were barely twenty years old. They share the same passions: cinema, painting, rock and the United States. To date, they have made five films together, Handke writing for Wenders.