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Wings of Desire(Movie, 1987)

Original title: "Der Himmel über Berlin" (German/DE)
PG-13
| 2h 8min | Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love
Wings of DesireRating: 3.9/5 (with 582582 votes)
Wings of Desire (German: Der Himmel über Berlin, pronounced [deːɐ̯ ˈhɪml̩ ˈʔyːbɐ bɛɐ̯ˈliːn] ; lit. 'The Heaven/Sky over Berlin') is a 1987 romantic fantasy film written by Wim Wenders, Peter Handke and Richard Reitinger, and directed by Wenders. The film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and listen to the thoughts of its human inhabitants, comforting the distressed. Even though the city is densely populated, many of the people are isolated or estranged from their loved ones. One of the angels, played by Bruno Ganz, falls in love with a beautiful, lonely trapeze artist, played by Solveig Dommartin. The angel chooses to become mortal so that he can experience human sensory pleasures, ranging from enjoying food to touching a loved one, and so that he can discover human love with the trapeze artist. Inspired by art depicting angels visible around West Berlin, at the time encircled by the Berlin Wall, Wenders and author Peter Handke conceived of the story and continued to deve... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Wings of Desire

Independent Spirit Awards Kurd Lasswitz Award for Best Foreign Work European Film Award for Best Director European Film Award for Best Supporting Actor European Film Award for Best Film European Film Award for Best Director European Film Award for Best Supporting Actor European Film Academy Special Aspect Award for Best Camera

About 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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Production countries: Germany, France
Shot in: West Berlin
Derivative works/Adaptions: "City of Angels" (movie, 1998)
Original language: German (DE)
Spoken languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Japanese (JA), Turkish (TR)
Translated into 26 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 04/29/1988 (World premiere: 05/17/1987)
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk, Hans-Martin Stier, Annelinde Gerstl, Beatrice Manowski, Crime & the City Solution, Didier Flamand, Laurent Petitgand, Nick Cave, Lajos Kovács, Chick Ortega, Otto Kuhnle, Teresa Harder, Bernard Eisenschitz, Erika Rabau, Jürgen Heinrich, Ulrike Schirm, Hans Marquardt, Thierry Noir, Margita Haberland, Blixa Bargeld, Kid Congo Powers, Mick Harvey, Rowland S. Howard, Thomas Wydler, Roland Wolf, Simon Bonney, Harry Howard, Johanna Penski, Epic Soundtracks
Director: Wim Wenders
Film Editor: Peter Przygodda
Director of Photography: Henri Alekan
Composer: Jürgen Knieper
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"El cielo sobre Berlín"
"Berliinin taivaan alla"
"Les ailes du désir"
"Τα Φτερά του Έρωτα"
"柏林蒼穹下"
"Il cielo sopra Berlino"
"ベルリン・天使の詩"
"베를린 천사의 시"
"Las alas del deseo"
"Himmelen over Berlin"
"Lidenskapens vinger"
"As Asas do Desejo"
"Cerul deasupra Berlinului"
"Небо над Берлином"
"Heaven Over Berlin"
"The Sky Over Berlin"
Budget: 2,500,000 USD
Revenue: 3,210,139 USD (= 128%)

2 movies in the Collection

1987 Wings of Desire
1993 Faraway, So Close! ("In weiter Ferne, so nah!")

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