WIM WENDERS فيم فيندرز A FILM JOUrnAL مجلة للفيلم WIM WENDERS A FILM JOUrnAL Wim Wenders // 2014 // Photo © Sebastião Salgado / Amazonas images / Agentur Focus PreFACE // 7 WIM WENDERS // 9 FILMOGRAPHY // 11 KING OF THE ROAD // 13 WIM WENDERS By Joseph Fahim “I AM A GERMAN ROMANTIC” // 19 OR ESCAPING, SAVING AND PRESERVING : ON WIM WENDERS IMPrint By Amin Farzanefar This film journal is published by the Goethe-Institut Amman, 2015 // Editor: Günther Hasenkamp // Contributors: Joseph Fahim, Amin E-mails to Amin Farzanefar: Farzanefar, Günther Hasenkamp, and Ahmad Abdalla, Massoud Bakhshi, Nouri Bouzid, Khaled El Hagar, Sohrab Mahdavi, Necati Sönmez, Massoud Bakhshi // 20 Belmin Söylemez, Negar Tahsili, Haşmet Topaloğlu // Design & Layout: Ahmad Abdalla // 20
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[email protected] Translations & Editing SKYWAY MOTEL // 27 English: Manuela Thurner (Munich) Arabic: Isis Hakim (Cairo) IMAGE AS ANTI-IMAGE IN WENDERS’ FILMS By Günther Hasenkamp // 7 PREFACE Wim Wenders is one of the most important film directors of our time.