
Wim & Donata Wenders
Von einem der auszog - Wim Wenders' frühe Jahre | One Who Set Forth - Wim Wenders' Early Years by Marcel Wehn
DEU 2006, Perspektive Deutsches Kino

Wim Wenders, Rüdiger Vogler
Von einem der auszog - Wim Wenders' frühe Jahre | One Who Set Forth - Wim Wenders' Early Years by Marcel Wehn
DEU 2006, Perspektive Deutsches Kino

Marcel Wehn
Von einem der auszog - Wim Wenders' frühe Jahre | One Who Set Forth - Wim Wenders' Early Years by Marcel Wehn
DEU 2006, Perspektive Deutsches Kino

Wim Wenders
Von einem der auszog - Wim Wenders' frühe Jahre | One Who Set Forth - Wim Wenders' Early Years by Marcel Wehn
DEU 2006, Perspektive Deutsches Kino
© Sarah Rotter

Wim Wenders
Von einem der auszog - Wim Wenders' frühe Jahre | One Who Set Forth - Wim Wenders' Early Years by Marcel Wehn
DEU 2006, Perspektive Deutsches Kino
© Sarah Rotter
In intimate conversations, Wim Wenders talks about his sheltered upbringing in post-war Oberhausen. The film follows him on a journey into the past that takes him to Paris, where he lived as a young painter and made his decision to become a filmmaker. He recounts his experiences, successes and failures as a film student on the way to becoming a director. He also conveys the attitudes and the euphoric mood among the first intake of students at Munich's newly founded film school.
Apart from Wenders himself, some of his most important fellow-travellers also have their say, including Peter Handke, Robby Müller, Rüdiger Vogler, Bruno Ganz and Lisa Kreuzer. As they remember, they discuss some of the fundamental, recurring themes of Wenders' films - such as the search for identity, friendship and communication. These exponents also discuss their own personal experiences of Wenders - on both private and professional levels. Excerpts from Wenders' early works illustrate how, time and again, the filmmaker was portraying people he knew and experiences that were authentic. This is just one of the ways in which this documentary sheds new light on the early films of Wim Wenders.
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Wim Wenders, Marcel Wehn
Wim Wenders and Marcel Wehn, protagonist and director of Von einem der auszog, a documentary on Wenders' early years as a filmmaker..
Von einem der auszog - Wim Wenders' frühe Jahre · Perspektive Deutsches Kino · Feb 15, 2007

Yella Rottländer
Yella Rottländer, starring in Wim Wenders' early film Alice in the cities, is also one of the protagonists in Marcel Wehn's Wenders documentary Von einem der auszog. Trivia: Christian Petzold named his film Yella, screening in this year's Competition, after her.
Von einem der auszog - Wim Wenders' frühe Jahre · Perspektive Deutsches Kino · Feb 15, 2007