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Directed by Wim Wenders

Same Player Shoots Again

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Directed by Wim Wenders • 1968 • West Germany

Wim Wenders’ second short film—and his first surviving work—is a fractured, experimental take on a crime thriller in which a single shot is repeated five times with five different color filters, a structure described by the director as having “a lot to do with playing pinball, where you also get five balls.”

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