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Focus Wim Wenders
28 August – 8 September
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photo by Wolfgang Bellwinkel
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SPRACHE.ADVERT
KULTUR.
DEUTSCHLAND.
“In the beginning I just wanted to
make movies, but with the passage
of time the journey itself was no
longer the goal, but what you find
at the end. Now I make films to
discover something I didn‘t know,
very much like a detective.”
— Wim Wenders
Welcome
After last year’s success with our German
Film Festival FOCUS Werner Herzog,
the Goethe-Institut dug deep into the
catalogue of films by Wim Wenders for
the 2012 edition of our FOCUS Festival.
You will have the chance to revisit four
decades of Wenders’ work – from the
earliest to the classic, from the most
obscure to the most poetic – there will
be something new to discover even for
the most die-hard Wim Wenders fan.
We hope to see you at all our films, but
if you should only have time for two of
them, we recommend “Wings of Desire”,
www.goethe.de/nz
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and please don’t miss “Lisbon Story”
– with the most beautiful soundtrack
by Portuguese group Madredeus
with vocalist Teresa Salgueiro.
In collaboration with the New Zealand Film
Archive, the Goethe-Institut is delighted
to be able to bring these and other films
by Wim Wenders to the big screen for a
Wellington audience. We wish to thank all
those, both in Germany and Wellington,
who have worked hard and helped to bring
about the German Film Festival 2012.
Your Goethe-Institut Team
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Wim Wenders
“I’ve turned from an imagemaker
into a storyteller. Only a story
can give meaning And a moral to
an image.” — Wim Wenders
A highly influential contemporary film
director, Wim Wenders is one of the most
significant representatives of the New
German Cinema of the 70s. He was drawn
to filmmaking from an early age and his
directing career started at the University
of Television and Film in Munich. He has
produced numerous movies, documentaries
and short films. Alongside a successful film
career, Wenders has published a number of
photography books and essays and a large
selection of his photos “Pictures from the
Surface of the Earth” has been exhibited
internationally.
Born in Düsseldorf in 1945, he shot his first
short film, “Schauplätze” in 1966/67. He
finished his degree with his first feature
length film “Summer in the City” (1971) and
became a founding member of the German
film distributor “Filmverlag der Autoren”.
Two years later, Wenders made his artistic
breakthrough with the acclaimed road
movie “Alice in the Cities” (Alice in den
Städten), which won the German Film Critics’
award in 1974. In this film, as in most of his
later feature films, Wenders presented his
protagonists as introspective escapists who
find personal refuge in random travels, pop
music or melancholic idleness.
He established his own production company
“Road Movies” in Berlin in 1975. A year
later, Wenders finished “Kings of the Road”
(Im Lauf der Zeit). The journey of two men
along the inner German border bemoans
the closing of provincial cinemas and also
reflects the social atmosphere of mid-1970s
West Germany. “The American Friend” (Der
amerikanische Freund, 1977) attracted
the interest of Francis Ford Coppola who
asked him to direct the film noir homage
“Hammett”. During shooting breaks on
“Hammett”, Wenders worked on “The State
of Things” (Der Stand der Dinge, 1982) which
tells the poetic story of a stranded film
team. The audience is caught up in the magic
which evolves through his poignant images
of abandoned landscapes in Portugal. “The
State of Things” was awarded the Golden
Lion at the Venice Film Festival 1982.
Perhaps his best known film, the highly
acclaimed “Paris, Texas” (1984), depicts
the connection between the old and the
new world, whilst “Wings of Desire” (Der
Himmel über Berlin, 1987) soon gained cult
status. The poetic angel allegory filmed
in divided Berlin premiered at the 1987
Cannes film festival and won Wenders the
award of “Best Director”.
In 1984 Wenders became a member of
the Berlin Akademie der Künste and was
awarded an honorary doctorate by the
Sorbonne University in 1989. In 1990 he
received the German Federal Cross of
Merit, in 1991 the Murnau Award and in
1996 he became president of the European
Film Academy.
He returned to the Berlin of angels with
“Faraway, So Close!” (In weiter Ferne so
nah, 1993) and to the Lisbon of failed
movie projects with “Lisbon Story” (1994).
Wenders then followed his old companion
Ry Cooder, who wrote the music for “Paris,
Texas”, to Cuba to film “Buena Vista Social
Club” (1998), a video documentary about
the old men of the Son Cubano – the film
became an overwhelming world-wide
success and ushered in a revival of the
Cuban “Son” music.
“Don’t Come Knocking” (2005), a road
movie in the tradition of “Paris, Texas”
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about an ageing Western star searching
for his children, also received critical
praise. The film premiered at the 2005
Cannes film festival and won the 2005
European Film Award in the category
“Best Cinematography”.
At the 2011 Berlinale Film Festival,
Wenders presented his extraordinary
project “Pina”. Shot in 3D, the dance film
showcases choreography by his long-time
friend, the late Pina Bausch. A magnificent,
Oscar-nominated celebration of dance, the
film won the European Film Award 2011 for
Best Documentary.
Wenders is currently a professor of Film at
the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg.
Acknowledgements:
www.goethe.de
www.filmportal.de
Photo:
6 Donata Wenders
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PARIS, TEXAS
Tuesday 28 August – 6:30pm
Opening Night – by invitation only
Germany 1984, colour, 149 mins, English
“What is most enjoyable about the
cinema is simply working with a
language that is classicaL in the
sense that the image is understood
by everyone.” — Wim Wenders
Screenplay: Sam Shepard
Cinematography: Robby Müller
Editing: Peter Przygodda
Music: Ry Cooder
With: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski,
Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément, Hunter Carson,
Bernhard Wicki, Socorro Valdez
Production: Road Movies Filmproduktion,
Argos Films S.A.
Rating: PG
Plot Summary
“Paris, Texas” is probably Wim Wenders’
most successful and critically acclaimed
film winning a number of international
prizes including the Palme D’Or in
Cannes for Best Film in 1984.
Travis’ family broke up years ago and since
then he has seen neither his wife Jane
nor his son Hunter. After the separation,
Travis disappeared for four years without
a trace. He turns up in a small town in
the middle of the Texan desert with no
memory of his past. With the aid of his
brother – who also raised Hunter – he
gradually begins to recover his speech and
slowly begins to build up a relationship
with his estranged son. Together they
finally set off to look for Jane, who they
find in a peep show in Houston, Texas.
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DON’T COME KNOCKING
THE AMERICAN FRIEND
Der amerikanische Freund
Wednesday 29 August – 7:00pm
Germany & France, 2005, colour, 120 mins,
English
Screenplay: Sam Shepard
Cinematography: Franz Lustig
Editing: Peter Przygodda, Oliver Weiß
Music: T-Bone Burnett, Patrick Warren
With: Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth,
Gabriel Mann, Sarah Polley, Fairuza Balk, Eva
Maria Saint, George Kennedy
Production: Reverse Angle Production GmbH,
Arte France Cinéma
Rating: M – offensive language
Plot Summary
While working on a new film, Western actor
Spence is suddenly struck by the feeling
that he might not have much longer to live.
Driven by impulse, the ageing womaniser
jumps on his horse and rides off. Planning
to reconnect with all the people who played
an important role in his life, Spence first
visits his mother with whom he has had no
contact for 30 years. Chased by a detective
hired by the film production company, he
continues to travel across the USA. When
Spence learns from two of his former love
interests that he has fathered two children
in his wild days – a boy and a girl – the
ensuing encounters with his unknown
offspring turn out very differently.
Thursday 30 August – 7:00pm
Germany 1977, colour, 121 mins, German/ English
(with English subtitles)
Screenplay: Wim Wenders, based on the novel
“Ripley’s Game” by P. Highsmith
Music: Jürgen Knieper
With: Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, Lisa Kreuzer,
Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller, Peter
Lilienthal, Daniel Schmid, Jean Eustache, Sandy
Whitelaw, Lou Castel
Wim Wenders Produktion, Les Films du Losange,
Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
Rating: M – medium level violence
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Plot Summary
Jonathan, formerly a restorer, and now
a picture-framer, lives in Hamburg. He
suffers from leukemia and knows he
is dying. Tom Ripley, an American art
dealer, makes him a very dubious offer:
to kill a man in Paris in return for money
with which he, a terminally ill man, could
safeguard the future of his wife and child.
When Ripley’s French client also offers
him the chance to get a second opinion
from a leukemia specialist in Paris, and
even pays him an unrequested advance,
Jonathan flies off to Paris… On his return
a second murder is inevitable. Ripley
himself is now in need of Jonathan’s help.
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KINGS OF THE ROAD
Im Lauf der Zeit
A TRICK OF THE LIGHT
Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky
Friday 31 August – 7:00pm
Germany 1976, b/w, 170 mins, German with
English subtitles
Screenplay: Wim Wenders
Music: Axel Linstädt
With: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa
Kreuzer, Rudolf Schündler, Marquard Bohm,
Hans Dieter Traier, Franziska Stömmer, Peter
Kaiser, Patrick Kreuzer
Production: Wim Wenders Produktion,
Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
Rating: R–16
Plot Summary
For the past two years Bruno has been
travelling through the small towns and
villages along the East German border
in his van. Along the way he repairs the
projectors in the dilapidated local cinemas.
One morning he sees a man driving his
VW into the river Elbe. The man, Robert
Lander, climbs out of his sinking car with
his suitcase and swims ashore. Bruno takes
him with him and so begins a journey
through a provincial, unseen Germany.
By the end of their journey, they derive
comfort from the fact that “in the course
of time” (the literal translation of the film’s
German title), their lives have taken on
shape and significance. It is a quiet, almost
lyrical film which disdains psychological
motivation, suspense and dramatic tension.
Saturday 01 September – 4:30pm
Germany 1996, color and b/w, 77 mins, German
with English subtitles
Screenplay: Carlos Alvarez, Sebastian Andrae,
Sorin Dragoi, Peter Fuchs, Carsten Funke, Florian
Gallenberger, Markus Hansen, Henrik Heckmann,
Veit Helmer, Germán Kral, Björn Kurt, Bodo
Lang, Matthias Lehmann, Stephan Puchner, Britta
Sauer, Marcus Schmidt, Wim Wenders
Cinematography: Jürgen Jürges
Editing: Peter Przygodda, Barbara Rohm, Germán
Kral, Eva Munz, Veit Helmer
Music: Laurent Petitgand, Daniel Favre
With: Manfred Wopalka, Nadine Büttner,
Christoph Merg, Otto Kuhnle, Udo Kier, Bodo
Lang, Alfred Sczczot, Marianna Kavka, Lucie
Hürtgen-Skladanowsky, Ludwig Licht
Production: Wim Wenders Produktion,
Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (HFF,
München), Veit Helmer Filmproduktion
Rating: G
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Plot Summary
This film by Wim Wenders and students
of the Munich Film Academy deals with
the birth of cinema in Berlin, where the
brothers Skladanowsky built a projector,
the “Bioskop”, at the same time as the
Lumière Brothers in France and Edison in
America, and thereby co-invented “moving
pictures” in their very own, poetic, poor,
endearing and rather “un-German” way.
The film starts a hundred years ago and
it ends today, with Max Skladanowsky’s
daughter Lucie who still remembers her
father and those early days of cinema
very well. The film was shot mostly on
an old hand-cranker from the twenties,
silent, and in the best slapstick tradition.
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LISBON STORY
ALICE IN THE CITIES
Alice in den Städten
Germany 1994, colour, 100 mins, German/ English
(with English subtitles)
Cinematography: Lisa Rinzler
Editing: Peter Przygodda, Anne Schnee
Music: Madredeus, Jürgen Knieper
With: Rüdiger Vogler, Patrick Bauchau, Vasco
Sequeira, Ricardo Colares, Joel Ferreira
Metro Filme
Rating: PG
Plot Summary
Philip Winter, a sound engineer and
creator of sounds, receives a message
from director Friedrich Monroe urgently
requesting him to come to Lisbon. After a
series of mishaps, Winter finally arrives in
the Portuguese capital and finds Friedrich
Monroe’s apartment, only to discover
that the director has vanished, leaving
behind an old camera, with hand crank, a
cutting table and silent documentary film
material about Lisbon. When an alarm
clock rings it becomes clear that Monroe
cannot have left his apartment more than
a few hours earlier. Winter, fascinated by
the city and a Portuguese singer, decides
to wait for his friend and to look himself
for the sounds to accompany the film.
Thursday 06 September – 7:00pm
Germany 1973, b/w, 108 mins, German with
English subtitles
Screenplay: Wim Wenders, Veith v. Fürstenberg
Music: Can, Chuck Berry, Gustav Mahler, Deep
Purple
With: Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa
Kreuzer, Edda Köchl
Production: Wim Wenders Produktion, PIFDA 1
Rating: PG
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Plot Summary
Philip, a journalist from Munich, is
supposed to be writing an article about
the American landscape for his publishers,
yet all he has to show from his fourweek tour of the United States are a few
Polaroid photos. He wishes to return
to Germany but his agent in New York
refuses to give him an advance. Because
of an airline strike he can only book
a ticket to Amsterdam and it is at the
airport that he meets two other travellers
heading to Amsterdam, Lisa and her nine
year old daughter Alice. When Lisa has
to cancel her flight, she asks him to take
Alice with him and promises to come
for her soon. Thrown together in this
way, Philip and Alice become friends.
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THE STATE OF THINGS
Der Stand der Dinge
Wings of Desire
Der Himmel über Berlin
Friday 07 September – 7:00pm
Germany & Portugal, 1982, b/w, 120 mins,
German/ English (with English subtitles)
Screenplay: Wim Wenders, Robert Kramer
Cinematography: Henri Alekan
Editing: Barbara von Weitershausen, Peter Przygodda
With: Patrick Bauchau, Viva Auder, Isabelle
Weingarten, Samuel Fuller, Rebecca Pauly,
Jeffrey Kime, Camilla Mora, Geoffrey Carey,
Alexandra Auder, Roger Corman, Paul Getty, Allen
Goorwitz, Artur Semedo
Production: Road Movies Filmproduktion, Wim
Wenders Produktion, Pro-ject Filmproduktion im
Verlag der Autoren, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
(ZDF)
Rating: M – offensive language
Plot Summary
Friedrich, a German director, is making a
film in Portugal in a deserted, stormbattered seaside hotel. Joe, the cameraman, tells the director that they have run
out of film and are unable to continue filming, while the producer has just left for Los
Angeles. At first, the crew seeks solace in
various pastimes, but slowly the interruption breaks the team down into individuals
dealing with unexpected solitude. Friedrich
eventually tries to find the missing producer. Up until then he had always had more
belief in life itself than in telling stories, and
it was precisely this conviction that led the
American investor to run off. In the end, the
director finds himself seriously embroiled in
a story – that of the producer Gordon.
Germany 1987, colour and b/w, 123 mins,
German/ English (with English subtitles)
Screenplay: Wim Wenders, Peter Handke
Cinematography: Henri Alekan
With: Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander, Solveig
Dommartin, Curt Bois, Peter Falk
Argos Films
Rating: PG – coarse language
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Plot Summary
“Wings of Desire” follows two angels,
Damiel and Cassiel, who watch over the
people below from their lofty vantage
points high above Berlin. Untouchable and
at first rarely touched, the angels observe
life in divided Berlin. Visible only to children, they are unable to truly intervene.
Damiel falls in love with Marion, a trapeze
artist who appears able to escape the confines of earth’s gravity and who often performs wearing angel’s wings. To become
truly close to Marion, however, emotionally and physically, he must give up his
ethereal existence. A hugely acclaimed and
multi-award winning movie including Best
Director for Wenders at Cannes 1987.
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TV Lounge
Programme
timetable/PROGRAMME
German Film Festival 2012
Tuesday 28 August
Thursday 06 September
6:30pm
7:00pm
Paris, Texas
(149 mins)
by invitation only
Image: The New Zealand Film Archive © Dave Murphy
7:00pm
Cinematography: Agnès Godard
Editing: Chantal de Visme
Music: Jürgen Knieper, Bernard Herrmann
With: Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Yilmaz
Güney, Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Spielberg,
Rainer Werner Fassbinder and others
Production: Wim Wenders Produktion, Gray
City Inc
7:00pm
Don’t Come Knocking
(120 mins)
The State of Things
(120 mins)
Saturday 08 September
Thursday 30 August
7:00pm
Documentary, France & USA, 1982, colour,
50 mins, various languages (with English
subtitles)
Alice in the Cities
(108 mins)
Friday 07 September
Wednesday 29 August
ROOM 666
Chambre 666
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Plot Summary
Location: Cannes, room 666 at the Hotel
Martinez. Godard, Fassbinder, Spielberg
and other famous directors answer the
question: “Is cinema a language about
to be lost, an art about to die?”
We will screen this film as a loop in the TV
Lounge at the New Zealand Film Archive,
open from 9am – 5pm, Monday – Friday.
The American Friend
(121 mins)
Friday 31 August
7:00pm
Kings of the Road
(170 mins)
Saturday 01 September
4:30pm
A Trick of the Light
(77 mins)
7:00pm
Lisbon Story
(100 mins)
7:00pm
Wings of Desire
(123 mins)
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LOCATION
IMPRINT
The New Zealand Film Archive
Te Anakura Whitiahua
84 Taranaki Street
Corner Taranaki and Ghuznee Streets
Wellington 6011
Goethe-Institut New Zealand
150 Cuba Street
PO Box 9253
Wellington 6141
Phone: +64 4 3847647
Website: www.filmarchive.org.nz
Tickets: $ 8/6
Programme
Changes
We reluctantly reserve the right to change
the schedule by amending dates or
replacing films. Any necessary changes will
be advertised at the festival venue and on
the Goethe-Institut New Zealand website.
Phone: +64 4 3856924
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.goethe.de/nz
The Goethe-Institut is the Federal Republic
of Germany’s cultural institution; it
operates 149 institutes in 92 countries.
In New Zealand the Goethe-Institut has
been based in Wellington since 1980.
Design & Layout: The International Office
Film texts: Hans Günther Pflaum, Wolfgang
Jacobsen, German Films & Marketing GmbH,
www.filmportal.de, www.goethe.de
Images © Reverse Angle Library GmbH
Special thanks to: Filmbereich
Goethe-Institut, Duncan Forbes, Elaina
Hamilton, Brendan Moore, Sharon
Rhodes, Mark Sweeney, Amanda White
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