| WIMWENDERS | German director of films including Wings of Desire and Paris, Texas |
| BRUNO | _ Ganz, Swiss actor whose films include Wings of Desire and Downfall (5) |
| NETBALL | Seven-a-side court game with positions including wing attack and centre (7) |
| RAINERWERNERFASSBINDER | German director of the films The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and The Marriage of Maria Braun |
| WERNERHERZOG | German director of the films Woyzeck and Fitzcarraldo (6,6) |
| WENDERS | Wim -, director of film dramas Hammett, The Million Dollar Hotel and Paris, Texas (7) |
| KINSKI | Nastassja ___, German-born actress whose films include Tess, Cat People and Paris, Texas |
| HOPE | Virtue of desire and expectation metaphorically in a bride's chest, paired with faith and charity or remaining in Pandora's Grecian jar (4) |
| EAGER | Full of desire and enthusiasm (5) |
| CITIES | "___, like dreams, are made of desires and fears": Italo Calvino |
| DESERVE | Be worthy of Wings of Desire verse translation (7) |
| WIM | "Wings of Desire" director Wenders |
| CAVE | Which Melbourne musician appeared as himself in Wenders's film Wings of Desire (1987) |
| CITYOFANGELS | Wings of Desire remake that takes place in Los Angeles |
| SCHERZO | Eg acquiring this lively piece shows overlap of Dutch artist and German director (7) |
| NOSFERATU | German director Murnau 'borrowed' the plot of Dracula from Bram Stoker to make this classic silent film, providing an iconic image of the cloaked, long-fingered, taloned vampire |
| EMIGRATED | Moved, as from Paris, Texas, to Paris, France |
| SADDLE | Upsets the German director with the French interest of Bicycle Thieves (6) |
| UWE | German director Boll known for film adaptations of video games |
| USA | Home of Paris, TX and Cairo, IL |
