Name: Wim Wenders’ classic The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Start: 2026-07-16T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-07-16T22:30:00-05:00
Location: POST Houston

Wim Wenders’ classic The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

Located in one of the most vibrant and diverse cities in the U.S., the Goethe-Institut Houston offers cultural programming and a space for dialogue, learning, and collaboration. As part of the global Goethe-Institut network, our Houston branch connects local communities with contemporary culture from Germany—and collaborates locally to spark ideas for meaningful exchange.

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Free screening of Wim Wenders’ unsettling sophomore feature

POST Houston

Join Goethe-Institut Houston in Skylawn Room on the roof of POST for a free screening of Wim Wenders' classic The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick on July 16th.Alone in an unfamiliar Vienna after being ejected from a soccer match for a foul, goalkeeper Josef wanders aimlessly through the streets, ducking into bars, theaters, and telephone booths. He spends the night with a cinema cashier after following her home, but when the morning-after turns violent, Josef finds himself fleeing to his former girlfriend’s house in the country. There, he decides to live in plain sight, whether the police arrive or not. Based on the novella of the same title by Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke, The Goalie’s Anxiety gathers urban flaneurism, Hitchcockian suspense, mid-century ennui, and post-war cultural Americanization into a queasy but definitive early work of one of German cinema’s greats. “Wim Wenders’ bizarre noir is a keeper... [a] majestic meditation on madness, misogyny and the American dream.” —Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 07/13/2018 The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick screened at the 1972 Venice Film Festival, where it was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize, and at the first edition of New Directors/New Films in the same year. Unavailable outside of Germany for forty years due to uncleared music rights, the film was restored and re-released internationally in 2014. Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter Dir. Wim Wenders West Germany/Austria, 1971 100 min. With Arthur Brauss, Kai Fischer, Erika Pluhar <h3> Language: German with English subtitles</h3><h3>Rating: 18 years ( nudity) </h3>

Wim Wenders’ classic The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

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