While Wim Wenders was preparing "Pina," the choreographer discovered she had cancer and died a few days before filming began.
Wim Wenders reports that he actively resisted going to see Bausch's Café Müller in 1985. He claims he had no interest in dance whatsoever and was dragged to the production by his then companion, Solveig Dommartin. Once he had been seated in the audience and began to watch, however, he found himself so moved by the performance that he wept.
For twenty years, Wim Wenders had wanted to make a documentary about the choreographer and dancer Pina Bausch.
It was the other dancers of Tanztheater Wuppertal convinced Wim Wenders to make the film after Pina Bausch had died.
Germany's official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 84th Academy Awards 2012.