Philip Winter
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Philip Winter is a fictional character and alter ego invented by German film director Wim Wenders and is acted by long-time Wenders collaborator Rüdiger Vogler.
Winter appears in Wenders' films Alice in the Cities, Lisbon Story, Until the End of the World, and Faraway, So Close!. In Kings of the Road he takes on the name Bruno Winter. While Winter's occupation changes from film to film, his characteristic directionless wandering and inner turmoil never does. Winter's occupation always remains centered around the practical aspects of filmmaking, including a photographer in Alice in the Cities, a writer in The Wrong Move, a movie theater repairman in Kings of the Road, and a motion picture sound engineer in Lisbon Story.
[edit] The Evolution of Philip Winter
Philip Winter first appears by that name in Alice in the Cities (1974), the first installment of Wenders' early career Road Movie Trilogy. In The Wrong Move (1975), the second installment in the trilogy, Vogler plays a writer named Wilhelm Meister. The fact that Wilhelm is Wim Wenders' actual birthname suggests that the character is a still developing alter ego of the director. Winter appears in the third installment as Bruno Winter, and it is not until Wenders' Until the End of the World (1991) that Philip Winter (the name introduced in Alice in the Cities) reappears and continues in two more successive films after. These facts suggest Winter was an idea that evolved slowly, and ties together all Wenders' films.
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