Wings of Desire (1987)
Directed by Wim Wenders
“There are angels on the streets of Berlin.”
Drama, Fantasy, Romance · 2h 08m
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.
Cast
Bruno Ganz
Damiel
Solveig Dommartin
Marion
Otto Sander
Cassiel
Curt Bois
Homer
Peter Falk
The Filmstar
Hans Martin Stier
The Dying Man
E
Elmar Wilms
A Sad Man
S
Sigurd Rachman
The Suicide
Beatrice Manowski
Young Prostitute
B
Bruno Rosaz
The Clown
L
Laurent Petitgand
The Bandleader
Chick Ortega
The Drummer
Crew
- Director
- Wim Wenders
- Screenplay
- Peter Handke, Richard Reitinger, Wim Wenders, Bernard Eisenschitz
- Director of Photography
- Henri Alekan
- Original Music Composer
- Jürgen Knieper
- Editor
- Peter Przygodda
- Producer
- Anatole Dauman, Wim Wenders
Details
- Original title
- Der Himmel über Berlin
- Release date
- 1987-09-23
- Runtime
- 2h 08m
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- English, French, Hebrew, Japanese, Spanish, Turkish, German
- Countries
- Germany, France
- Production
- Road Movies, Argos films, WDR, Wim Wenders Stiftung
- Budget
- $2,500,000
- Box office
- $3,548,590