Director, screenwriter and film producer but also a passionate photographer, November 4 next back in theaters with "Pina", a unique tribute to the art of the great and visionary German choreographer Pina Bausch, who died in the summer of 2009, in 1971, he shoots his very first feature film, "The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty", taken from Peter Handke and is one of the founders of the cooperative Filmverlag der Autoren, the heart of "New German Cinema" which will produce "Alice in the Cities", "The Wrong Move" and "Kings of the Road"(the so-called "Trilogy of the Road"), followed by "The American Friend","Lightning Over Water"(with Nicholas Ray) and "The State of Things", that won the Golden Lion at Venice 1982, with "Paris, Texas" he reaches the Palme d'Or at Cannes 1984, where, in 1987, gets the title for Best Director with "Wings of Desire" and again from "Until the end of the World", "Lisbon Story" , "Buena Vista Social Club," "the Million Dollar Hotel" to "Do not Come Knocking" (2005) and "Palermo Shooting" (2007). Since 1991, without interruption, he has been the President of European Film Academy