Master's Thesis from the year 2003 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,0, University of Edinburgh, language: English, abstract: Wim Wenders, one of the key figures of New German Cinema, a movement similar to the "Nouvelle Vague" in some ways, is of another generation than Fellini and Godard. In his film "Der Stand der Dinge" (1982) he literally commutes between the two poles of his filmmaking, Europe and the US. The film begins in Portugal, where...