Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders (b. 1945) is a German film director who, along with Werner Herzog and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, is considered a key figure of the German New Wave in the 1970s. He made his first feature film in 1972, The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, and has since made several critically acclaimed fiction and documentary films, including The American Friend (1977), Paris, Texas (1984), Wings of Desire (1987), and later documentary works such as Pina (2011) and The Salt of the Earth (2014).