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For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.
Wim Wenders
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Wim Wenders
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
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Dusseldorf
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Ernst Wilhelm Wenders
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