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Otto Sander

Otto Sander


Filmography

Otto Sander - filmography


  • A Trick of the Light on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Wim Wenders,  Nadine Buettner,  Lucie Hurtgen-Skladanowsky
    Director: Wim Wenders
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Weaving together docu-drama, fictional re-enactment and experimental photography, the film is a powerful and beautifully crafted exploration into the early days of German cinema and tells the story of the Skladanowsky Brothers who invented the Bioskop, the forerunner of the film projector.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 107 members
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  • Wings of Desire - Blu-ray (1987)
    Starring: Nastassja Kiniski,  Harry Dean Stanton,  Dennis Hopper
    Director: Wim Wenders
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    The sky over Wenders' war-scarred Berlin is full of gentle, trenchcoated angels who listen to the tortured thoughts of mortals and try to comfort them. One of the angels wishes to become mortal after falling in love with a beautiful trapeze artist. Peter Falk, as himself, assists in the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 332 members
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  • Wings of Desire on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Nastassja Kiniski,  Harry Dean Stanton,  Dennis Hopper
    Director: Wim Wenders
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) are angels who watch over the city of Berlin. They don't have harps or wings (well, they usually don't have wings) and they prefer overcoats to gossamer gowns. But they can travel unseen through the city, listening to people's thoughts, watching their ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 6,162 members
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  • Rosa Luxemburg (1986)
    Starring: Barbara Sukowa,  Daniel Olbrychski,  Otto Sander
    Director: Margarethe von Trotta
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Wronke Prison, 1916. Social democrat Rosa Luxemburg faces a mock execution. Twenty years earlier, Rosa's political gifts are acknowledged by everyone, as she struggles for democratic government in Germany and revolution in Poland. There she works closely with Leo Jogiches. Their political activity ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 66% from 6 members
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  • Tokyo-Ga on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Chishu Ryu,  Werner Herzog,  Yuuharu Atsuta
    Director: Wim Wenders
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Having been moved by the work of acclaimed director Yasujiro Ozu, Wenders travels to Japan to search out the Tokyo he has seen in his films, discovering along the way how the country is losing its identity and culture to Americanisation.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 264 members
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  • Paris, Texas on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Nastassja Kinski,  Dean Stockwell,  Harry Dean Stanton
    Director: Wim Wenders
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Winner of the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984, Wim Wenders's PARIS, TEXAS tells the haunting story of an amnesiac (Harry Dean Stanton) and his struggle to rebuild his shattered life. Featuring a story by Sam Shepard and a renowned score by Ry Cooder, the film also stars Nastassja ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 5,652 members
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  • Room 666 on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Chantal Akerman,  Michelangelo Antonioni,  Maroun Bagdadi
    Director: Wim Wenders
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    During the Cannes Film Festival of 1982 Wenders persuades a number of film directors to lock themselves in a hotel room, switch on the camera and ponder on the question "What is the future of cinema?".
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 49 members
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  • Nick's Film - Lightning Over Water on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Wim Wenders,  Gerry Bamman,  Nicholas Ray
    Director: Wim Wenders,  Nicholas Ray
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Director Nicholas Ray is diagnosed with cancer and is determined to complete his final film before his untimely demise. Wim Wenders follows his quest and in this moving film charts the death of a rare talent. The film features an outstanding soundtrack which adds to the impact.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 125 members
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  • The American Friend on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Dennis Hopper,  Bruno Ganz,  Nicholas Ray
    Director: Wim Wenders
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Wim Wenders' mines Dennis Hopper's real-life experience as a painter and collector in this existential take on the American gangster film based on a Patricia Highsmith novel featuring the notoriously sociopathic Tom Ripley. Hopper stars as the eponymous American, currently a middleman selling the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,657 member
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  • The Scarlet Letter (1973)
    Starring: Senta Berger,  Rafael Albaicin,  Angel Alvarez
    Director: Wim Wenders
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne (Senta Berger) must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 132 members
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Otto Sander facts

5 most recent films

A Trick of the Light - 3.0 stars
Far Away, So Close - 3.0 stars
A Notebook on Cities and Clothes - 3.0 stars
Wings of Desire - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Wings of Desire - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Paris, Texas - 3.5 stars
Tokyo-Ga - 3.5 stars
Wings of Desire - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Wings of Desire - 3.5 stars
A Trick of the Light - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Rosa Luxemburg - 3.0 stars
The Scarlet Letter - 3.0 stars
Room 666 - 3.0 stars
Nick's Film - Lightning Over Water - 3.0 stars
Far Away, So Close - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Bruno Ganz - 20 times - show films
Ronee Blakley - 19 times - show films
Lisa Kreuzer - 19 times - show films
Nastassja Kiniski - 19 times - show films
Dean Stockwell - 19 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Wim Wenders - 22 times - show films
Nicholas Ray - 2 times - show films
Eric Rohmer - 1 times - show films
Margarethe von Trotta - 1 times - show films