Berlin International Film Festival 2015

The director will receive an honorary Golden Bear in conjuction with this retrospective.

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The Goalie’s Anxiety At The Penalty Kick The Goalie’s Anxiety At The Penalty Kick
The Goalie’s Anxiety At The Penalty Kick and The Million Dollar Hotel
Alice In The Cities (Alice in den Städten) (Country: West Germany; Year: 1974; Director: Wim Wenders; Writer: Veith von Fürstenberg, Wim Wenders; Stars: Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer, Edda Köchl, Ernest Boehm, Sam Presti, Lois Moran, Didi Petrikat, Hans Hirschmüller, Sibylle Baier, Mirko, Chuck Berry, Wim Wenders)
A German journalist ends up on a roadtrip with a nine-year-old girl.
The American Friend (Country: West Germany, France; Year: 1977; Director: Wim Wenders; Writer: Wim Wenders, based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith; Stars: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller, Peter Lilienthal, Daniel Schmid, Sandy Whitelaw, Jean Eustache, Lou Castel, Andreas Dedecke, David Blue, Stefan Lennert, Rudolf Schündler)
Ripley recommends a man who could be a hitman.
The Goalie’s Anxiety At The Penalty Kick (Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter) (Country: West Germany, Austria; Year: 1972; Director: Wim Wenders; Writer: Wim Wenders, based on the novel by Peter Handke; Stars: Arthur Brauss, Kai Fischer, Erika Pluhar, Libgart Schwarz, Marie Bardischewski, Alexandra Bäck, Sybille Danzer, Rosl Dorena, Maria Engelstorfer, Ernst Essel, Bert Fortell, Ina Genée, Liane Gollé, Otto Hoch-Fischer, Paul Hör)
Following in the footsteps of a goalie after he is sent off in a game.
The Million Dollar Hotel (Country: Germany, UK , US; Year: 2000; Director: Wim Wenders; Writer: Nicholas Klein; Stars: Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich, Mel Gibson, Jimmy Smits, Peter Stormare, Julian Sands, Amanda Plummer, Bud Cort, Gloria Stewart, Tom Bower, Conrad Roberts, Donal Logue)
After a billionaire's son dies, the FBI investigate the eccentric residents of a skid row hotel.
Paris, Texas (Country: US; Year: 1984; Director: Wim Wenders; Writer: LM Kit Carson, Sam Shepard; Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Sam Berry, Bernhard Wicki, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément, Claresie Mobley, Hunter Carson, Viva, Socorro Valdez, Edward Fayton, Justin Hogg, Nastassja Kinski, Tom Farrell, John Lurie, Jeni Vici)
A man with no memory walks out of the desert and tries to reconnect with his family.
Pina Pina
Pina and Paris, Texas
Pina (Year: 2011; Director: Wim Wenders; Writer: Wim Wenders; Stars: Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo, Ruth Amarante, Pina Bausch, Rainer Behr, Andrey Berezin, Damiano Ottavio Bigi, Bénédicte Billet, Ales Cucek, Clementine Deluy, Josephine Ann Endicott, Lutz Förster, Pablo Aran Gimeno, Mechthild Grossmann, Silvia Farias Heredía), Official Site
3D dance documentary.
Tokyo-Ga (Country: US, West Germany; Year: 1985; Director: Wim Wenders; Writer: Wim Wenders; Stars: Chishû Ryû, Werner Herzog, Yûharu Atsuta, Chris Marker)
Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo depicted in Yasujiro Ozu's films.
Until The End Of The World (Bis ans Ende der Welt) (Country: Germany, France, Australia, US; Year: 1991; Director: Wim Wenders; Writer: Michael Almereyda, Peter Carey, Solveig Dommartin, Wim Wenders, Wim Wenders; Stars: Solveig Dommartin, Pietro Falcone, Enzo Turrin, Chick Ortega, Eddy Mitchell, William Hurt, Adelle Lutz, Ernie Dingo, Jean-Charles Dumay, Sam Neill, Ernest Berk, Christine Oesterlein, Rüdiger Vogler, Diogo Dória, Amália Rodrigues)
A woman in a car accident, finds herself enlisted by some bank robbers to help make a drop.
Wings Of Desire (Country: West Germany, France; Year: 1987; Director: Wim Wenders; Writer: Wim Wenders, Peter Handke, Richard Reitinger)
An angel falls in love with a mortal.
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