“I didn’t have what I knew he needed...” So says Jane about the son she surrenders in Wim Wenders’ shattered-family fable. But Klaus’ daughter had what her director wanted: the sense of a woman trapped by image.

“I felt she was waiting to show the other side of that image,” Wenders reckoned. “And she did.” Despite not appearing in the film until its close, Kinski intuitively grasped the role of a woman playing a role, her “meeting” with Travis revealing in guarded increments degrees of vulnerability, strength and recognition.

Greatest Moment: Giving away everything and nothing from behind the mirror in the sex club.

Also See: Tess Durbeyfield (Tess), Leila (One From The Heart), Irena Gallier (Cat People).