Wenders Filmreihe: 5 Filme an 5 Abenden

In the organizer's words:

Wim Wenders | Film series

Saturday, September 13, 6 p.m. (121 min)

The State of Things, 1981/82

DER STAND DER DINGE is a highly personal film about filmmaking in Europe and America.Wenders' parable of filmmaking has also been seen as an examination of the difficulties he faced during the production of his first film in America, HAMMETT.

FRG 1981/82

Saturday, October 25, 6 pm (105 min)

Buena Vista Social Club, 1998/1999

Germany/USA 1998/99

Saturday, November 29, 6 p.m., 146 min

Paris, Texas, 1983/84

PARIS, TEXAS is considered Wenders' best-known and most successful film worldwide. Critically acclaimed, it won a number of important international awards, including the Palme d'Or in Cannes.

FRG/France 1983/84

Saturday, December 6, 6 p.m. (175 min)

In the course of time, 1975/76

IM LAUF DER ZEIT is about a friendship between two men: Bruno alias "King of the Road" (Rüdiger Vogler) repairs film projectors and travels a route along the German-German border in his truck, and the psychologist Robert alias "Kamikaze" (Hanns Zischler) is on the run from his own history.

FRG 1975/76

Saturday, January 10, 6 p.m. (179 min)

To the end of the world, 1990/91

BIS ANS ENDE DER WELT is "the ultimate road movie", a journey around the globe, an odyssey of the present, and there are certainly similarities with Homer's myth. Except that the goal of this journey is the spiritual reconciliation between an obsessed father and his lost son. And that in UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD Penelope decides to travel after Odysseus.

Germany/France/Australia 1990/91

1994 Director's Cut