Wim Wenders wants to get to know Germany

Film director Wim Wenders wants to return to Germany from the USA. He tells Michal Prochazka: "I've said all I wanted to say about America in my films. Now I want to become reacquainted with my homeland, which has changed a lot in recent years. Today I know more about Utah than about Saxony. I'm interested, for example, in the legends and fairytales from the Ore Mountains. But most of all I want to understand the new conditions under which Germany lives today. I myself come from a middle class background. And that hardly exists any more today. Instead, the very rich class is growing, and there is an army of increasingly poor people. That worries me, and I want to try to express it through film."

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