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Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.
Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making.
As proud as I am of European cinema, the way to make it survive is not to make it an endangered species but to put it out there in the world.
But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around i... (more Wim Wenders quotes)
In 1945 the authorities refused the name request Wim and named as reason it's "not a proper German name". So his parents named him Wilhelm, a thing close to Wim.
In 2004 Wim won the important UNESCO Award at the Venice Film Festival for his movie Land of Plenty. The move was also nominated for the golden lion.
He won the Golden Lion in 1982 for The State of Things and the FIPRESCI Prize of the same festival for Beyond the Clouds in 1995.
Wim won the German Film Awards three times:
1975: The ... (more Wim Wenders trivia)
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