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Room 666 (Chambre 666)

Location: Cannes, room 666 at the Hotel Martinez.

Godard, Fassbinder, Spielberg and other famous directors answer the question: "Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?"

Wim Wenders was born in Duesseldorf in 1945. He abandoned studies in Medicine and Philosophy to become a painter, but in Paris he discovered cinema instead. He attended film school in Munich from 1967-1970, and then started to direct and produce his own films. He has received numerous international awards, including the Golden Lion (1982), the Golden Palm (1984), the European Film Award (1988), and a Silver Bear (2000). He is a professor at the Hamburg Academy of Arts, and lives partly in America, partly in Berlin. A selection of his acclaimed films includes: The Goalkeeper’s Fear of the Penalty (1971), Alice in the Cities (1973), In the Course of Time (1976), The American Friend (1977), Hammett (1982), The State of Things (1982), Paris, Texas (1984), Wings of Desire (1987), Until the End of the World (1991), Faraway, So Close! (1993), Lisbon Story (1994), The End of Violence (1997), Buena Vista Social Club (1998), The Million Dollar Hotel (2000), The Soul of a Man (2003), Land of Plenty (2004), Don’t Come Knocking (2005), and Palermo Shooting (2008), among others.
 

Genre Art
Category Short
Year of Production 1982
Director Wim Wenders
Director of Photography Agnès Godard
Editor Chantal de Vismes
Original Music by Bernard Herrmann, Juergen Knieper
Producers Chris Sievernich, Wim Wenders
Production Company Wim Wenders Production/Munich & Berlin
Principal Cast Chantal Akerman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Maroun Bagdadi, Ana Carolina, Mike De Leon, Jonathan Demme, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Romain Goupil, Yilmaz Gueney, Monte Hellman, Werner Herzog, Robert Kramer, Paul Morrissey, Susan Seidelman, Noel Simsolo, Steven Spielberg, Wim Wenders
Length 50 min
Format 16 mm, color
Original Version English
Sound Technology Mono
Festival Screenings Cannes 2006 (Special Screening)

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