Robby Müller

Nacimiento : 1940-04-04, Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles

Muerte : 2018-07-03

Historia

Robby Müller (4 April 1940 - 4 July 2018) was a Dutch cinematographer. Known both for his use of natural light and minimalist imagery, as well as expressionistic use of colors, Müller first gained recognition for his contributions to West German Cinema through his acclaimed collaborations with Wim Wenders. Müller's first work as a cinematographer was also Wim Wenders' first as director, Alabama: 2000 Light Years. They went on making many more films together such as Summer in the City, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, The Scarlet Letter, Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move, Kings of the Road, The American Friend, Wings of Desire, Until the End of the World and Paris, Texas. Throughout the course of his career, he also worked closely with directors Jim Jarmusch (Down by Law, Mystery Train, Dead Man, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai), Lars Von Trier (Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark), Peter Bogdanovich (Saint Jack, They All Laughed), Barbet Schroeder (Barfly, Tricheurs) and Hans W. Geissendörfer (Jonathan, The Glass Cell, Carlos, The Wild Duck, Der Fall Lena Christ, Die Eltern). Müller's other work has been on both mainstream productions and independent films, including the hazy, yellow-tinted cinematography of William Friedkin's To Live and Die in LA, Alex Cox's Repo Man, Michael Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People, Andrzej Wajda's Korczak, Jerry Schatzberg's Honeysuckle Rose, Peter Handke's The Left Handed Woman, Sally Potter's The Tango Lesson, Dom Rotheroe's My Brother Tom and Steve McQueen's Carib’s Leap. Paul Thomas Anderson referred to Müller as "The master of night exteriors. Like a chef with a secret sauce. I can't quite figure it out." Barry Sonnenfeld recalls the first thing he and the Coen Brothers bonded over was Müller's The American Friend cinematography, which convinced the brothers that Sonnenfeld had good enough taste to shoot their first film (Blood Simple). Müller died on 3 July 2018, aged 78, having suffered from vascular dementia for several years.

Películas

Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self (archive footage)
'Paris', 'Texas', 'Wings of Desire', 'The American Friend', y tantos otros. Eric Friedler y Campino nos llevan tras las cámaras de estos y otros clásicos en su documental. que recorre la carrera de Wim Wenders, uno de los artistas más polifacéticos de nuestro tiempo.
Living the Light: Robby Muller
Director of Photography
For her extraordinary film essay, Living the Light, Director and Director of Photography Claire Pijman had access to the thousands of Hi8 video diaries, pictures and Polaroids that Müller photographed while he was at work on one of the more than 70 features he shot throughout his career; often with long term collaborators such as Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch and Lars von Trier. The film intertwines these images with excerpts of his oeuvre, thus creating a fluid and cinematic continuum. In his score for Living the Light Jim Jarmusch gives this wide raging scale of life and art an additional musical voice.
Living the Light: Robby Muller
Self
For her extraordinary film essay, Living the Light, Director and Director of Photography Claire Pijman had access to the thousands of Hi8 video diaries, pictures and Polaroids that Müller photographed while he was at work on one of the more than 70 features he shot throughout his career; often with long term collaborators such as Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch and Lars von Trier. The film intertwines these images with excerpts of his oeuvre, thus creating a fluid and cinematic continuum. In his score for Living the Light Jim Jarmusch gives this wide raging scale of life and art an additional musical voice.
Ashes
Director of Photography
Ashes (2002-2015) a double video projection, tells the story of a young Caribbean man known by this name. In 2002 while shooting Caribs' Leap in Grenada, McQueen met and filmed a young man called Ashes, but the footage was not used. Many years later he learned that Ashes had been killed. McQueen decided to create a tribute to him, combining old and new footage. On one side of the screen, Ashes is full of life, his boat moving towards a seemingly unending horizon. The other side shows his tomb being constructed and the etching of a memorial plaque for his grave. Over the soundtrack, two local men tell the story of Ashes's untimely death.
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
Self
The early films of Wim Wenders are now regarded as landmarks of European film. Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move and Kings of the Road became foundations of the German New Wave and cemented the reputation of their director. In One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years Marcel Wehn explores the background to these films. Through personal recollection and rare home movie footage, it documents the director's early life, from experiments with his first camera, via his deviation from a career in medicine in favour of art and film, through to international recognition for the Road Trilogy. Central to these were themes that became cornerstones of all his work: national identity, the importance of personal relationships and the allure of the road. With contributions from the director and the many collaborators who helped define his vision, One Who Set Forth is a compelling account of Wim Wenders' life and work.
From Dogma to Dogville: Don't Try This at Home
himself
A documentary with the three cinematographers known for breaking away cinema away from celluloid with the introduction of digital video.
Visiones de Europa
Director of Photography
Veinticinco cineastas, uno por cada estado de la Unión Europea, realizaron una película sobre sus respectivos países. Todas tenían el mismo presupuesto, debían estar ambientadas en el presente o en un futuro inmediato y durar cinco minutos. No había otras limitaciones, de modo que los autores tenían plena libertad para expresarse. Entre los directores figuran tanto nombres consagrados como voces nuevas dentro del panorama cinematográfico. Cada corto tiene su propia identidad, por lo que es posible establecer comparaciones fascinantes; pero, además, juntos ofrecen una imagen global de la Comunidad Europea a través de la fusión de esas distintas visiones conceptuales y creativas.
Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'
Himself (archive footage)
The magic and creation behind the making of William Friedkin's classic action film To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). It follows cast, crew and the director several years after the film sharing their experiences while working on the project, also including footage from the shooting, and they discuss in detail the conception of the most spectacular scenes filmed there and also the great debate about the different endings developed for the film.
Coffee and Cigarettes
Director of Photography
En 1993, un corto de Jim Jarmusch titulado "Coffee and Cigarettes" recibió la Palma de Oro del Festival de Cannes. Once años depués Jarmusch rueda "Coffee and Cigarettes", un conjunto de episodios cortos. Cada secuencia muestra a diversos personajes sentados a una mesa, tomando café, fumando cigarrillos y discutiendo sobre temas tan diversos como la preparación del té inglés, las teorías sobre la conspiración contra Elvis Presley, Abbot & Costello, la ficticia banda de rock SQÜRL, París en los años veinte o el uso de la nicotina como insecticida...
24 Hour Party People
Director of Photography
En 1976, Tony Wilson descubre que su verdadera vocación es la música. Funda un sello discográfico y se convierte en cazatalentos y promotor musical. Nace así la exitosa discográfica Factory Records de Manchester, de donde proceden grupos como Joy Division, New Order y Happy Mondays. Tony Wilson y sus amigos, tras asistir a un concierto de Sex Pistols, a finales de los años 70, elaboran un plan que cambia por completo el mundo de la música pop y convierte a Manchester en una ciudad famosa. Tras lanzar Factory Records, compran un local y ponen su propia discoteca (Hacienda), que se convierte en una de las más conocidas del mundo.
My Brother Tom
Director of Photography
A teenage girl, Jessica, befriends a teenage boy called Tom, who is bullied by a local gang. She is abused by Jack, who is both her neighbour and school teacher, and Tom is sexually abused by his father. Together they bond in the woods, creating a private reality that no-one else can enter.
Bailar en la oscuridad
Director of Photography
La película se desarrolla en Estados Unidos en el año 1964. Selma (Björk) es una inmigrante checa que se muda a aquel país con su hijo Gene. Además padece una enfermedad hereditaria degenerativa que le está ocasionando una rápida ceguera progresiva. Por este motivo Selma ahorra centavo a centavo en una lata que guarda en su cocina para pagar una operación que evite que su hijo sufra el mismo destino.
Buena Vista Social Club
Director of Photography
Cuando, en 1996, Ry Cooder viajó a Cuba para grabar un álbum con Ibrahim Ferrer y los músicos que habían colaborado en el disco Buena Vista Social Club (en Cuba conocidos como los superabuelos), Wenders lo siguió: observó a los músicos en el estudio y rastreó sus vidas en La Habana. Después rodó en Ámsterdam, donde la banda ofreció dos conciertos y, finalmente, en Nueva York, durante un espectáculo en el legendario Carnegie Hall.
Ghost Dog, el camino del samurai
Director of Photography
"Ghost Dog" (Whitaker) es un asesino a sueldo de Nueva York, un hombre de actitud tranquila en su vida diaria que se rige bajo el código de honor de los antiguos samuráis.
En brazos de mi asesino
Director of Photography
Una joven, bella y rica heredera se puede convertir, de repente, en una fría y calculadora asesina. Ni ella misma puede diferenciar sus dos personalidades, sólo puede afirmar que cuando asume una de ellas, en sus sueños aparece su otro yo. Pero esta doblepersonalidad va a ser crucial para su futuro: en plena luna de miel descubre que su marido está planeando asesinarla y su faceta perversa sale a la luz.
La lección de tango
Director of Photography
On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from Pablo's friends. Sally and Pablo meet again but this time their relationship changes, she realises they want different things from each other. On a trip to Buenos Aires they cement their friendship.
Rompiendo las olas
Director of Photography
A principios de los años 70, Bess (Watson), una ingenua joven de un pueblo costero de Escocia, se enamora de Jan (Stellan Skarsgård), un hombre mundano que trabaja en una plataforma petrolífera. A pesar de la oposición de la rígida comunidad puritana a la que pertenece, Bess y Jan se casan. Tras la boda, él vuelve a su trabajo, y ella cuenta los días esperando su vuelta. Bess, una creyente devota, cree que su amor está bendecido por el cielo; pero un día sucede un terrible accidente. Primera película de la trilogía "Corazón dorado" de Lars Von Trier.
Dead Man
Director of Photography
William Blake decide abandonar su puesto de contable en Cleveland (Ohio) después de recibir una oferta de trabajo en Machine, una inhóspita ciudad industrial en el Oeste de los EEUU. Sin embargo, cuando llega, resulta que su puesto lo ocupa otra persona. Charlie Dickinson, el hijo del propietario de la empresa, mata a su mujer cuando la encuentra en la cama con Blake, quien a su vez liquida a Charlie. De este modo, un simple contable de Cleveland se convierte en un "fugitivo" perseguido por tres cazadores de recompensas.
Más allá de las nubes
Director of Photography
Un director rueda una película que relata cuatro historias de amor ambientadas en distintas ciudades de Francia e Italia. En la primera, un joven se enamora de una muchacha. La segunda aborda la fascinación que un hombre siente por una joven que afirma: "Ya tengo a mi padre". La tercera narra la ruptura de una pareja y su reencuentro. La última versa sobre la sublimación del amor: un mismo corazón puede sentir amor a Dios y amor a los hombres.
Last Call
Director of Photography
Old entertainer gets a last chance to play a serious role.
When Pigs Fly
Director of Photography
The ghosts of a middle-aged woman and a precocious little girl help an unwed jazz musician and a bar dancer reverse their bad fortune.
La chica del gángster
Director of Photography
Wyne Dobie, un fotógrafo de la policía, salva la vida del jefe de la mafia, Frank Milo. Éste, en agradecimiento, le ofrece la compañía de Gloria, una de sus empleadas. Pero Wyne no quiere aceptar los favores de Frank y, además, no está seguro de cómo debe actuar con la chica
The Ditvoorst Domains
Self
Documentary about the Dutch film director Adriaan Ditvoorst.
Hasta el fin del mundo
Director of Photography
1999. Mientras conduce, una mujer (Dommartin) choca con el coche de unos delincuentes que acaban de atracar un banco y que la obligan a colaborar con ellos en el traslado del dinero a un lugar de París. En el trayecto, conoce a Sam (Hurt), un fugitivo perseguido por la CIA, que le explica que los delitos que le imputan son falsos y que lo que, en realidad, quieren es arrebatarle un invento de su padre que permite revisar los sueños.
Korczak
Director of Photography
The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
Self
Though very polite and British, this feature-length documentary about German filmmaker Wim Wenders offers the most penetrating insights and the best overall critique of his work that I have encountered anywhere. Paul Joyce, who directed it, has also made documentaries about Nicolas Roeg, David Cronenberg, Nagisa Oshima, and Dennis Hopper, and he knows the conventional format well enough to get the most out of it. There are good clips and interesting commentaries from the interviewed subjects, who include Wenders himself, cinematographer Robby Muller, filmmaker Sam Fuller, novelist Patricia Highsmith, musician Ry Cooder, actors Harry Dean Stanton, Peter Falk, and Hanns Zischler, and critic Kraft Wetzel, who is especially provocative. A must-see for Wenders fans, highly recommended for everyone else. –Jonathan Rosenbaum, 1989
Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'
Self
Documentary about the making of Wim Wenders' 1984 film, with interviews conducted in 1989.
Notebook on cities and clothes
Director of Photography
Wim Wenders conversa con el diseñador de moda japonés Yohji Yamamoto sobre el proceso creativo y reflexiona sobre la relación entre las ciudades, la identidad y el cine en la era digital.
Mystery Train
Director of Photography
En Memphis, Tennessee, en el transcurso de una sola noche, el Hotel Arcade, dirigido por un excéntrico empleado nocturno y un despistado botones, recibe la visita de una joven pareja japonesa que viaja en busca de las raíces del rock; una mujer italiana de luto que se tropieza con una parlanchina muchacha que intenta salir de la ciudad; y un cómico trío de ladrones accidentales que buscan un lugar donde esconderse.
Coffee and Cigarettes II
Director of Photography
A brother and sister, sitting in a coffee bar, bicker mildly about whose idea it was to come to Memphis and which kind of cigarette is fresher. Danny, their waiter, comes by offering refills; after determining they are twins, he guesses which is the evil one. Without a pause, he sits down and offers his theory about Elvis's twin. He drones on. The good twin finally speaks up, giving her own opinion. The waiter is unfazed. After his boss finally calls him back to work, the twins are free to resume their bickering amidst the coffee and cigarettes.
Soy el pequeño diablo
Director of Photography
Un diablillo se persona en la Tierra y sufre toda clase de vivencias en compañía del sacerdote que intentó exorcizarle. Durante un viaje a Milán conoce a una hermosa e inteligente mujer por la que siente algo que nunca antes había experimentado.
El borracho
Director of Photography
Henry Chinaski es un escritor alcohólico y genial que se pasa la vida en los bares. Su preferido es el "Golden Horn", frecuentado por un variopinto grupo de vagabundos, prostitutas y otros desechos de la sociedad. Henry se lleva muy bien con Jim, el barman de día, pero discute frecuentemente con Eddie, el barman de noche, un hombre iracundo y fanfarrón. Sus peleas son objeto de apuestas por parte de los clientes. Cuando Henry gana, gasta su dinero recorriendo los demás bares del barrio. Así es cómo conoce a Wanda, una mujer todavía bella y tan alcohólica como él
Los creyentes
Director of Photography
Tras la muerte de su mujer electrocutada en un accidente, el psiquiatra de la policía Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen) se muda a Nueva York. Allí se ve envuelto en una demoníaca pesadilla cuando encuentra al detective Tom López junto al cuerpo de un niño, sacrificado en una ceremonia ritual realizada por hispanos. Aunque López se convierte en el principal sospechoso de una serie de asesinatos similares, Cal no está convencido de su culpabilidad, y se esfuerza por encontrar la verdad. Pero su investigación lo llevará a involucrarse a fondo en el ámbito de lo sobrenatural. (FILMAFFINITY)
Bajo el peso de la ley
Director of Photography
Tres hombres muy diferentes se conocen al compartir celda en una cárcel de Louisiana. Zack es un DJ; Jack, un chulo de poca monta y Roberto, un turista italiano.
The Longshot
Director of Photography
Four losers borrow money from gangsters to bet on a "sure thing", but lose. The gangsters go after them to get their money.
Vivir y morir en Los Ángeles
Director of Photography
Un agente del servicio secreto de Los Ángeles pone en marcha un peligroso plan para atrapar a un famoso falsificador de dinero.
Finnegan Begin Again
Director of Photography
A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.
Body Rock
Director of Photography
Chilly es un humilde chico de la calle con talento para el baile. Cuando sus espectaculares movimientos llegan hasta los ojos de un cazatalentos, Chilly verá realizarse sus sueños de fama y fortuna, para bien y para mal.
París, Texas
Director of Photography
Un hombre aparece andando en el desierto de Texas sin recordar quién es. Su hermano va en su busca, intentando que recuerde su vida cuatro años atrás, cuando abandonó a su mujer y a su hijo. Mientras la memoria va volviendo a él y recupera el contacto con personas de su pasado, descubre la oportunidad de rehacer su vida.
Repo Man (El recuperador)
Director of Photography
Otto, un joven que acaba de perder su trabajo, decide que quiere vivir todo tipo de aventuras. Casualmente, se verá implicado en una investigación del gobierno sobre una extraña sustancia que provoca extraños efectos en aquellos que la observan.
Cheaters
Director of Photography
Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the young woman also sinks into gambling hell. The couple then start getting involved in the fearsome world of professional cheaters.
Cheaters
Ingénieur
Swaying between pleasure and despair, Elric throws himself into his pathological passion for the casino. Meeting Suzie could have saved him, but the young woman also sinks into gambling hell. The couple then start getting involved in the fearsome world of professional cheaters.
Un dimanche de flics
Director of Photography
Two policemen, Franck and Rupert, intervene in a Parisian heliport where drugs are exchanged for a large sum of money. They decide to keep the loot and find themselves fighting with the mafia.
Las islas
Director of Photography
Un repentino suceso ha trastornado la pacífica vida de los habitantes de Les Ardoines, una isla adquirida recientemente por el señor Fabrice. La única solución que les queda a los habitantes es emigrar a otras islas, pero no lo aceptan de buen grado e intentarán escapar a su destino.
Class Enemy
Director of Photography
Berlin-Kreuzberg in the early 1980s. The film is essentially a one-set piece, taking place in a beat-up, graffiti-decorated schoolroom where six teen-age delinquents argue and fight as they await the latest in what has been a series of terrified teachers.
A Hot Summer Night
Director of Photography
A husband, half of an entertainment duo, the Nellicos, tells his wife, who is the other half of the duo, that he has another woman. But they cannot discuss this as he tells her only just before they are due to perform in front of a large audience. (BFI)
Todos rieron
Director of Photography
Dos maridos que sospechan de sus mujeres contratan los servicios de una agencia de detectives de Nueva York para que las sigan. El detective John Russo (Ben Gazzara), un mujeriego, se encarga de vigilar a Angela Niotes (Audrey Hepburn), la bella y elegante mujer de un rico comerciante. Por su parte, Charles (John Ritter) y Arthur (Blaine Novak) seguirán los pasos de Dolores Martin (Dorothy Stratten). Los casos se complican cuando John se enamora de Angela y Charles de Dolores. (FILMAFFINITY)
Honeysuckle Rose
Director of Photography
Buck Bonham is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.
Hello Fellow Man
Cinematography
TV-adaptation of the performance by the Dutch theatre group 'Het Werkteater'. Three ladies of high society invite homeless people, homeless people and junks to spend a pleasant evening with them, in order to promote communication and integration.
Saint Jack, el rey de Singapur
Robby (uncredited)
principios de los años 70, el americano Jack regenta un burdel en Singapur. Aunque la competencia es enorme y de métodos violentos, ha conseguido sobrevivir gracias a que la policía se deja sobornar. Pero la llegada de un nuevo inspector que se encarga de revisar sus libros de cuentas no hará más que agudizar sus graves problemas.
Saint Jack, el rey de Singapur
Director of Photography
principios de los años 70, el americano Jack regenta un burdel en Singapur. Aunque la competencia es enorme y de métodos violentos, ha conseguido sobrevivir gracias a que la policía se deja sobornar. Pero la llegada de un nuevo inspector que se encarga de revisar sus libros de cuentas no hará más que agudizar sus graves problemas.
In for Treatment
Cinematography
An unsuspecting flower farmer visits the hospital to discuss some test results, only to find himself admitted without explanation for an indefinite period of further examination and observation.
Mysteries
Director of Photography
In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence soon disturbs the lives of the local inhabitants, especially the beautiful daughter of the parson.
La celda de cristal
Director of Photography
Cuando una escuela se derrumba con todos los niños dentro, el arquitecto Phillip Braun es juzgado y condenado por deficiencias en el diseño y construcción del edificio, y es enviado a prisión. Su abogado descubre que la verdadera responsabilidad del incidente pudiera ser otra...
The Left-Handed Woman
Director of Photography
Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own novel, a couple with an unhappy marriage agree to a trial separation. They try to patch things up, and at the same time other relationships begin to develop for them.
El amigo americano
Director of Photography
El marchante americano Tom Ripley (Hopper) intenta poner a prueba la integridad de Jonatham Zimmermann, un humilde fabricante de marcos (Bruno Ganz) que padece una enfermedad terminal. Ripley le presenta a un gánster que le ofrece mucho dinero a cambio de que trabaje para él como asesino a sueldo. En un principio rechaza la oferta, pero, al pensar en el precario futuro que espera a su mujer y a su hijo después de su muerte, acaba aceptando el trato.
Die Wildente
Director of Photography
Consul Werle holds a reception in honour of the homecoming of his son Gregers. At the reception, Gregers meets his childhood friend, Hjalmar Ekdal, who is married to Gina, a former maid of the Werle family. Hjalmar is unaware that Werle had an affair with Gina and that their 14-year-old daughter Hedwig is not his child. Gregers moves in with the Ekdals with the intention of allowing unsuspecting Hjalmar and his family to share in the "happiness of truth". Hedwig is entirely devoted to a wild duck, which lives on a pond outside their house. When Hjalmar learns the truth about his daughter, he wants to leave his family. Gregers advises Hedwig to kill the wild duck so that her father, impressed by this sacrifice, will return home. On the following day, Hedwig's birthday, she doesn't shoot the duck, but shoots herself instead.
En el curso del tiempo
Camera Operator
Paradigma del viaje como liberación y encuentro entre los seres humanos, la hermosa relación que se establece entre dos hombres (un reparador de proyectores de cine y un hombre deprimido tras el colapso de su matrimonio), a lo largo de un nostálgico viaje por la frontera que separa las dos alemanias, se convierte, en manos del singular director 889856, no sólo en el film que vuelve a implantar el cine alemán en el panorama internacional (junto a la obra de Fassbinder), sino en la mejor road movie alemana de todos los tiempos. Una obra clave del cine europeo moderno.
En el curso del tiempo
Director of Photography
Paradigma del viaje como liberación y encuentro entre los seres humanos, la hermosa relación que se establece entre dos hombres (un reparador de proyectores de cine y un hombre deprimido tras el colapso de su matrimonio), a lo largo de un nostálgico viaje por la frontera que separa las dos alemanias, se convierte, en manos del singular director 889856, no sólo en el film que vuelve a implantar el cine alemán en el panorama internacional (junto a la obra de Fassbinder), sino en la mejor road movie alemana de todos los tiempos. Una obra clave del cine europeo moderno.
El miedo del portero ante el penalti
Director of Photography
Peter Handke adaptó su propia novela para este film sobre un portero de fútbol que pierde súbitamente la concentración en medio de un partido y es expulsado del juego. Confundido, vaga por la ciudad sin saber dónde ir y termina realizando acciones sin mucha explicación ni sentido.
Wrong Move
Camera Operator
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change.
Wrong Move
Director of Photography
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change.
Alicia en las ciudades
Director of Photography
El periodista alemán Felix Winter recorre los Estados Unidos buscando temas para escribir un libro, pero como ni siquiera consigue empezarlo, su editor cancela el contrato. Cuando Félix decide regresar a Alemania, en el aeropuerto conoce a una mujer, y como no hay vuelos hasta el día siguiente pasa la noche con ella. La mujer desaparece, pero le deja un recado: que vaya con su hija Alicia, de nueve años, a Amsterdam para reunirse con ella.
Die Eltern
Director of Photography
Ann, a ten-year-old girl, becomes the sole heir of millions from her grandmother. Ann's parents, who are short of money and have lost all hope of a bright future try to manipulate Ann's imagination in such a way that she loses her mind.
Die Reise nach Wien
Director of Photography
Two women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna.
La letra escarlata
Director of Photography
En la población de Salem durante el siglo XVII, en un ambiente de exacerbado puritanismo, una mujer mantiene relaciones adúlteras y queda embarazada. La comunidad intenta obligarla a revelar la identidad del padre y al negarse, es obligada a llevar una insignia acusatoria.
CAN:The Free Concert
Director of Photography
The experimental German krautrockers CAN's legendary "Free Concert," recorded in Cologne's Sporthalle, Germany, on February 3, 1972. The circumstances of this Cologne show were unusual. Rather improbably for such an experimental band, Can actually scored a chart success in Germany with "Spoon," which would later be tacked onto the end of Ege Bamyasi.
Carlos
Director of Photography
In the Southwest of 1915 Carlos backs an intended uprising of the common countymen against his father Phillip, a despotic landowner who exploits the rural poors in his silver mines. But Carlos' indecision and his love for his young and beautiful stepmother leads into a failure.
Summer in the City
Director of Photography
Released from prison a man wanders through a new reality
Eine Rose für Jane
Director of Photography
Pakbo
Director of Photography
Documentary drama about the Swiss journalist Otto Pünter, who maintained an anti-fascist information office in the 1930s and 1940s.
Jonathan
Director of Photography
A group of vampires terrorizes a small village on the German North Sea Coast. The young Jonathan joins a group of fellow students and locals, who plan an uprising against the vampires.
Der Fall Lena Christ
Director of Photography
Alabama: 2000 Işık Yılı
Director of Photography
"The film starts with a shot of a cassette recorder, and it has a juke box in it. There’s always music in it. When I was asked by some critics at a festival press conference what the film was all about, I said 'it’s about the song All Along The Watchtower, and the film is about what happens and what changes depending on whether the song is sung by Bob Dylan or by Jimi Hendrix.'" Well, both versions of the song appear in the film, and everybody thought I was pretty arrogant to explain the story this way. But the film really is about the difference between the Dylan version of All Along the Watchtower, and the Jimi Hendrix Version. One is at the beginning and one is at the end." – Wim Wenders
Love and So Forth
Assistant Camera
Munich, 1968: a period of liberation, student revolts, state repression. Amidst the restlessness, chemistry student Robbie meets the Irish cello player Nancy. They feel compelled to pursue a passion in spite of their careers. But does romantic love have a place in such convoluted, contesting times?
To Grab the Ring
Assistant Director of Photography
This film takes a decidedly satirical look at the inner workings of the gangster underworld. Alfred Lowell is a washed-up actor sent to London to take care of some mob business. Alfred's mind is not on his job, as he prefers to probe his past for the reasons why he has failed as a thespian. He entertains thoughts of suicide, but his involvement in the gang prevents him from ending his life.
The Road Trilogy
Cinematography
Wim Wender's The Road Trilogy consists of the films Alice in the Cities (1974), Wrong Move (1975) and Kings of the Road (1976).