Falsche Bewegung (Falso Movimento)
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Wilhelm Meister is a young aspiring writer, traveling from his hometown Glückstadt. Fleeing from an oppressive mother and his past, Meister embarks on a journey through Germany, gathering around him an unusual group of friends, and ultimately reaching, on his own, the Zugspitze.
In the literature of the 19th century, particularly in the German Bildungsroman, the topos of the journey is always linked to lastingly significant changes and experiences, traveling is synonymous with the successful search for one’s own identity. But the Wilhelm of Wrong Move must arrive at the painful recognition that a journey alone no longer leads to the desired goal. «At the origin of Wrong Move», writes Wenders, «is the desire to discover Germany, to take a journey through my country, from the northernmost point to the southernmost, from the seashore to the highest peak».
«At the origin of Wrong Move», writes Wenders, «is the desire to discover Germany, to take a journey through my country, from the northernmost point to the southernmost, from the seashore to the highest peak».
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Born in 1945, he came to international prominence as one of the pioneers of the New German Cinema in the 1970’s and is considered to be one of the most important figures in contemporary German film. In addition to his many prize-winning feature films, his work as a scriptwriter, director, producer, photographer and author also encompasses an abundance of documentary films, international photo exhibitions and numerous monographs, film books and prose collections. He lives and works in Berlin, together with his wife Donata Wenders. He studied medicine and philosophy before moving to Paris in 1966 to study painting. His career as a filmmaker began in 1967 when Wenders enrolled at the newly founded University of Television and Film Munich (HFF Munich). Parallel to his studies at the HFF, he also worked as a film critic from 1967 to 1970. Wenders has been a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin since 1984, and holds honorary doctorates from the Sorbonne in Paris (1989), the Faculty of Theology at the University of Fribourg (1995), the University of Louvain (2005) and the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Catania (2010). Since 1996 he has been President of the European Film Academy. He teaches as a professor at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg.
