Biography
Vim Wenders calls life dear, and it is not surprising that his films are often close in spirit to Road Mugi. The author's film director has long been considered a classic, and he himself became a master of European cinema, the testimony of which serves prizes of prestigious festivals, recognition of critics and audience love.Childhood and youth
The full name of the director - Wilhelm Ernst Wenders, he was born on August 14, 1945 in Dusseldorf, destroyed by the recent war almost to the ground. Ruins and empty streets did not cause fear in a boy, but trams, which come from nowhere to go anywhere, caught off fear. The boy loved to read, and the favorite heroes were Tom Sawyer and Geclberry Finn.
And also the characters of Disney comic book, who first fell into his hands in the early 1950s. Maybe, from there, the love of America came from there, which always seemed to be Venders the most native country.
Embed from getty imagesVimu has not yet been 20 years old, and he has already managed to live in Koblenz, Oberhausen, Munich, Freiburg and Dusseldorf. After school, he decided to go in the footsteps of the Father, Dr. Heinrich Wenders, and began to study medicine. However, the spectrum of hobbies of the young man was wide.
In his youth, he dreamed of a wide variety of fields and thought to become an architect, then a priest, then the artist. To learn how to draw, the young man in 1966 even went to Paris. It was there that Vim got carried away by cinema and began to think about entering the film school.
The French Sinemtec provided unlimited access to the largest archive of films and documents related to the movie history. Wenders went to her with his head and, returned in 1967 to Germany, became a student of the Higher School of Movie and Television Munich. There he studied on the director and wrote articles, reviews and reviews in parallel, trying herself as criticism.
During her studies, VIM removed mostly short films, which he himself produced. Wenders and now prefers to be a producer of his own films, comparing himself with a caring mother, which does not trust children by corrupted governess. The German filmography opened in 1970 by the debut full-length tape "Summer in the city", which counted the director as a graduation work.
Personal life
The personal life of Wenders was stormy. He was not once official marriage, and also lived with chosenses, without issuing a relationship legally. Among the women of the director were actresses Isabel Winggarten, Solveig Dommartin and Lisa Crocezer. The first wife became Edda Köhl, on which Vim married in 1968. The couple dreamed of having children, however, men diagnosed infertility that developed as a result of the disease, experienced in the post-war years.Embed from getty imagesThey divorced 6 years later, and in 1979, Westerns played a wedding with the American singer and actress Roni Blackley, but after 2 years and this marriage broke up. Relations with the German photographer Donatu Wenders were the most stronger, which is under the director for 20 years. Lovers got married in 1993 and live into two countries, alternating Los Angeles and Berlin.
The spouse specializes in creating atmospheric black and white portraits, trying to convey the condition of the soul through the bare facial expression or a random gesture. Her authorship own photos of the world stars Milla Yovovich, Bono, Mela Gibson. Removes woman and beloved husband, spreading the fruits of creativity in "Instagram", whose account is similar to the art gallery.
Films
Together with the group of German directors and scenarios in 1971, Wants founded the Studio Film Verlag Der Autoren, which allowed to produce independent cinema. The first large film "Fear of Goalkeeper before Penalti" appeared on the basis of the union, which was noticed at the festival in Venice. Following this, "road trilogy" appeared, including "Alice in cities", "false movement" and "over time."
These cinellines can only be formally attributed to the genre of Road Mugi, since the road and changing landscapes in them serve only the metaphor of the human soul, passing the way in search of proximity and overcoming loneliness. In 1976, Vim received a prize of FIPRESSI at the Cannes Festival, and a few years later, "American friend" brought the director fame overseas. He was invited to work in the United States, and he started a joint project with Francis Ford Koppol.
Werendsa's cinema turns out to be brushed at all prestigious film festivals, and the story of the love of Angel to the earthly woman "The Sky over Berlin" becomes an international hit and gives the Creator "Golden Palm Branch" in Cannes in 1987.
At the initiative of WIM, independent director planets remove the filmalmans "10 minutes older" in two parts - "tube" and "CIOLOCEL". Inspired by the example of famous black and white frames on the cultivation of the human soul, Aki Kaurismäki, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jim Dzharmush, Wennds and other masters of modern cinema represent their vision of the Time Theme.
In parallel, the German removed the documentary film, among which the "salt of the Earth", dedicated to the work of the Brazilian photographer Sebastian Salgado. In the center of the tape "Sketches about clothes and cities" is the identity of designer Yoji Yamamoto. In 2011, Wenders released the biographical film "Pina", telling about the German choreographer Pinea Bausch, where the director first applied 3D format
Vim Wenders now
Vim infrequently pleases fans by the emergence of new works. His filmography was not replenished since 2018, from the moment of the release of the documentary tape "Pope Francis. The man's word "dedicated to the biography of Pope Roman.However, interest in the work of German does not fade. Certificate of this is the retrospective of Wants's films, held in February-March 2020 in the Tretyakov Gallery. Muscovites were able to see on the big screen "Shooting in Palermo", "Alice in the cities", "Fear of goalkeeper before the penalty" and other paintings of the master.
Filmography
- 1972 - "Fear of goalkeeper before a penalty"
- 1972 - "Alay Letter"
- 1974 - "Alice in the cities"
- 1975 - "False Movement"
- 1976 - "Over time"
- 1977 - "American friend"
- 1987 - "Sky over Berlin"
- 1991 - "When the end of the world comes"
- 1993 - "So far, so close!"
- 1994 - "Lisbon Story"
- 2000 - "Hotel" Million dollars "
- 2004 - "Earth Abundance"
- 2005 - "Come without knocking"
- 2008 - "Removal in Palermo"
- 2015 - "Everything will be fine"
- 2016 - "Beautiful days in Aranhuese"
- 2017 - "Dive"