Wings of Desire
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1987
2h 8m
PG-13
German
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
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Wings of Desire
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.
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Cast
Damiel
Marion
Cassiel
Homer
The Filmstar
The Dying Man
A Sad Man
The Suicide
Young Prostitute
Marion's Coach
The Clown
The Bandleader
The Drummer
The Juggler
The Juggler
The Manager
In the Library - The Angel
In the Old Apartments
On the Highway
Crime and The City Solution / Nick ...
Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
In the Circus
In the Circus
In the Circus
Directed By: Wim Wenders
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saundrew
/10 8 years ago
I remember first watching this one in a modern film class. I was not exactly excited to get into it, and I didn't expect anything good. If you simply described this type of movie to me, I'd avoid it. "Angels wander around the city watching people live." Wow, I'm so on the edge of More
ltcomdata
CONTAINS SPOILERS8 years ago
Depending on your mood, this movie is either great or extremely boring.
In the right mood, this is an existential movie that speaks very deeply about the sheer beauty of embodied existence --- especially when it comes to love expressed physically. The movie is very good at hinting at the poetry More
In the right mood, this is an existential movie that speaks very deeply about the sheer beauty of embodied existence --- especially when it comes to love expressed physically. The movie is very good at hinting at the poetry More
CinemaSerf
2 years ago
Bruno Ganz is on top form in this characterful study of desire - physical and spiritual. He is "Daniel" an angel invisible to all but his own kind (and to the innocence of children) who finds himself, with his colleague "Cassiel" (Otto Sander) policing the city of Berlin at the end of the second wor More
Filipe Manuel Dias Neto
2 years ago
**Essay on Sleepiness.**
When I decided to see this film, I did it for three reasons: the first is the participation of Bruno Ganz, a German actor that I appreciate and that I started to like after seeing him do excellent work in other films such as “The Fall”; the second is the enormous cons More
When I decided to see this film, I did it for three reasons: the first is the participation of Bruno Ganz, a German actor that I appreciate and that I started to like after seeing him do excellent work in other films such as “The Fall”; the second is the enormous cons More
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