Peter Handke
December 6, 1942 · 83 years old
Peter Handke (born 6 December 1942, in Griffen, Austria) is an avant-garde Austrian novelist, playwright and screenwriter. In 2019, Handke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experie…
Known For
5 titles
Wings of Desire
An angel meets Peter Falk, and loves a French trapeze artist in Berlin.
Alice in the Cities
A German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.
Wrong Move
A writer goes on a road trip across West Germany with a group of eclectic people he meets along the way.
The Left-Handed Woman
After returning from a business trip in Finland, Bruno (Bruno Ganz) find that his wife Marianne (Edith Clever) wants her husband to leave her alone with their son. A struggle with loneliness and adapting to the new situation ensues.
Von einem der auszog - Wim Wenders' frühe Jahre
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 W...