Peter Handke

Novelist, Screenwriter

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Birth Place

Austria

Biography

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Key contemporary German-language writer who entered feature films in 1972, co-adapting (with first-time director Wim Wenders) his novel "The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick." Handke made an assured directing debut with "The Left-Handed Woman" (1977), a perceptive study of alienation and ennui produced by Wenders and again adapted from his own novel....

Filmography

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The Absence (1993)

Das Mal des Todes (1985)

The Left-Handed Woman (1977)

Das Mal des Todes (1985)

City of Angels (1998)

City of Angels (1998)

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Wings Of Desire (1987) -- (Movie Clip) Open, When The Child Was A Child

Wings Of Desire (1987) -- (Movie Clip) Less Effort, More Swing

Biography

Key contemporary German-language writer who entered feature films in 1972, co-adapting (with first-time director Wim Wenders) his novel "The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick." Handke made an assured directing debut with "The Left-Handed Woman" (1977), a perceptive study of alienation and ennui produced by Wenders and again adapted from his own novel.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

The Absence (1993)

Das Mal des Todes (1985)

The Left-Handed Woman (1977)

Cast (Feature Film)

Das Mal des Todes (1985)

Writer (Feature Film)

City of Angels (1998)

City of Angels (1998)

The Absence (1993)

Ville etrangere (1988)

From Story ("A Moment Of True Feeling")

Ville etrangere (1988)

Wings of Desire (1987)

Das Mal des Todes (1985)

The Left-Handed Woman (1977)

Wrong Move (1975)

The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1971)

The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1971)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

The Absence (1993)

Source Material (From Novel)

Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord (1989)

The Left-Handed Woman (1977)

Source Material (From Novel)

The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1971)

Source Material (From Novel)

Life Events

1971

Feature debut, adapted from his novel and credited for dialogue, also first collaboration with Wim Wenders, "Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter/The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty"

1975

First original screenplay, "Falsche Bewegung/Wrong Movement"

1977

Directorial debut, also adapted screenplay from his novel, "Die Linkshandige Frau/The Lefthanded Woman"

1985

First on-screen appearance, also wrote and directed, "Das Mal des Todes/The Malady of Death"

1987

Gained greatest global exposure, as screenwriter, with "Wings of Desire"

1993

Wrote and directed "L'Absence"

Videos

Wings Of Desire (1987) -- (Movie Clip) Open, When The Child Was A Child Spoken by Bruno Ganz as an angel called Damiel, composed by screenwriter Peter Handke and director Wim Wenders, the words are original though they suggest 1: Corinthians 13, the otherwise ethereal opening to the international hit Wings Of Desire, 1987, (the German title closer to Heaven Over Berlin), soaring over the then-divided city.

Wings Of Desire (1987) -- (Movie Clip) Less Effort, More Swing Now roaming West Berlin, angel Damiel (Bruno Ganz), who’s expressed broad discontent to a colleague, happens on a circus where Marion (Solveig Danmartin) is practicing, her first scene, in director Wim Wenders’ celebrated Wings Of Desire, 1987.

Wings Of Desire (1987) -- (Movie Clip) If Grandma Was Here Cutting from a plane over Berlin, another look at Bruno Ganz as (invisible) angel Damiel, as he sees and hears the thoughts of Peter Falk on board, sort-of playing himself, his narration mostly extemporized, after the shoot, in an L-A sound booth, guided by director Wim Wenders back in Germany, then observes other Berliners, early in Wings Of Desire, 1987.

Wings of Desire - (Original Trailer) An angel of death (Bruno Ganz) gives up his wings for love. Co-starring Peter Falk and directed by Wim Wenders.

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