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Budget. 5 million DM [3] Box office. USD$ 3.2 million [4] 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 ...
Eternal, invisible, and ever-watchful, two silent and compassionate angelic guardians, Damiel and Cassiel, turn their attention to the needy and the lonely of this world, soaring effortlessly over wall-divided Berlin's overcast skies. Then, unexpectedly, Damiel falls in love with Marion, a hauntingly beautiful trapeze artist.
Apr 12, 1998 · Simon Abrams. The angels in “Wings of Desire” are not merely guardian angels, placed on Earth to look after human beings. They are witnesses, and they have been watching for a long time--since the beginning. Standing on a concrete river bank in Berlin, they recall that it took a long time before the primeval river found its bed.
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Wings of Desire: Directed by Wim Wenders. With Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois. An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.
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- Wim Wenders
- PG-13
- Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander
Credits. Wings of Desire is one of cinema’s loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears, hopes, dreams—of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give up his immortality and come back to ...
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When one of them falls in love, he begins to question his place and yearns to give up immortality to join the ranks of the living. Wim Wender’s exceptional film is a poetic meditation on faith, cinema, and a mournful tour of a city in the grip of the Cold War. Wings of Desire is bursting with poetry and heartbreaking humanism emphasized by ...
May 31, 2023 · Picture 9/10. Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire receives a 4K UHD upgrade from The Criterion Collection, who present the film in 10-bit SDR on a triple-layer disc in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1. The 2160p/24hz ultra high-definition presentation is sourced from a new 4K restoration performed by Wim Wenders Stiftung, taken from a scan of ...
