Wim Wenders

Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire

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 earth to be with her. Made not long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, this stunning tapestry of sounds and images, shot in black and white and color by the legendary Henri Alekan, forever made the name of director Wim Wenders synonymous with film art.

Film Info

  • Germany
  • 1987
  • 127 minutes
  • Black and White/Color
  • 1.66:1
  • German, English, French
  • Spine #490

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • 4K restoration, supervised and approved by director Wim Wenders, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • Audio commentary featuring Wenders and actor Peter Falk
  • The Angels Among Us (2003), a documentary featuring interviews with Wenders, Falk, actors Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander, writer Peter Handke, and composer Jürgen Knieper
  • Episode of Cinéma cinémas from 1987, featuring on-set footage
  • Interview with director of photography Henri Alekan
  • Deleted scenes and outtakes
  • Excerpts from the film Alekan la lumière (1985) and from Ganz and Sander’s 1982 film about actor Curt Bois
  • Notes and photos by art directors Heidi and Toni Lüdi
  • Trailers
  • PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Atkinson and writings by Handke and Wenders

    Cover by Michael Boland

Purchase Options

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • 4K restoration, supervised and approved by director Wim Wenders, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • Audio commentary featuring Wenders and actor Peter Falk
  • The Angels Among Us (2003), a documentary featuring interviews with Wenders, Falk, actors Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander, writer Peter Handke, and composer Jürgen Knieper
  • Episode of Cinéma cinémas from 1987, featuring on-set footage
  • Interview with director of photography Henri Alekan
  • Deleted scenes and outtakes
  • Excerpts from the film Alekan la lumière (1985) and from Ganz and Sander’s 1982 film about actor Curt Bois
  • Notes and photos by art directors Heidi and Toni Lüdi
  • Trailers
  • PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Atkinson and writings by Handke and Wenders

    Cover by Michael Boland
Wings of Desire
Cast
Bruno Ganz
Damiel
Solveig Dommartin
Marion
Otto Sander
Cassiel
Curt Bois
Homer
Peter Falk
As himself
Credits
Director
Wim Wenders
Written by
Wim Wenders
together with
Peter Handke
Executive producer
Ingrid Windisch
Music by
Jürgen Knieper
Editor
Peter Przygodda
Assistant director
Claire Denis
Art director
Heidi Lüdi
Director of photography
Henri Alekan

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