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If anything, I see myself as a witness. I'd also be pleased, if you'd call me an interpreter. I try to hear and see the message of a place and pass it on, into that other language, the universal one of images.
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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