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February 14, 2016
Film Info
- Germany
- 1987
- 127 minutes
- Color, Black and White
- 1.66:1
- German, English, French
- Spine #490
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, is movie poetry. And it forever made the name Wim Wenders synonymous with film art.
Cast
| Damiel | Bruno Ganz |
| Marion | Solveig Dommartin |
| Cassiel | Otto Sander |
| Homer | Curt Bois |
| As himself | Peter Falk |
Credits
| Director | Wim Wenders |
| Written by | Wim Wenders |
| together with | Peter Handke |
| Director of photography | Henri Alekan |
| Executive producer | Ingrid Windisch |
| Music | Jürgen Knieper |
| Editing | Peter Przygodda |
| Assistant director | Claire Denis |
| Art director | Heidi Lüdi |
Disc Features
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Wim Wenders, with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- 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
- “Wim Wenders Berlin Jan. 87,” an episode of the French television program Cinéma cinémas, including on-set footage
- Interview with director of photography Henri Alekan
- Deleted scenes and outtakes
- Excerpts from the films Alekan la lumière (1985) and Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois (1982)
- Notes and photos by art directors Heidi Lüdi and Toni Lüdi
- Trailers
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Michael Atkinson and writings by Handke and Wenders
New cover by Michael Boland
Current Posts
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Features
On Wings of Desire
By November 09, 2009
The following essay originally appeared in The Logic of Images, a collection of Wim Wenders’s writing that was published in 1992. In the last few years, since Paris, Texas, Berlin has been the . . . Read more »
Film Essays
Wings of Desire: Watch the Skies
By November 03, 2009
If ever there was a European art film that could be all things to all people, it’s Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire (1987). Marking Wenders’s career midpoint like a lightning strike cutting across . . . Read more »
Features
An Attempted Description of an Indescribable Film
By November 02, 2009
The following, written in 1986, is from the first treatment for Wings of Desire. And we, spectators always, everywhere, looking at, never out of, everything! —Rilke, “The Eighth Elegy” At first . . . Read more »
Film Essays
Wings of Desire: Watch the Skies
By November 03, 2009
If ever there was a European art film that could be all things to all people, it’s Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire (1987). Marking Wenders’s career midpoint like a lightning strike cutting across . . . Read more »
Photo Galleries
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The Wim Wenders Sound
December 10, 2015
It's been a great seventieth-birthday year for Wim Wenders. After earning an Academy Award nomination for his 2014 documentary The Salt of the Earth, Wenders received an honorary Golden Bear at . . . Read more »
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News
Three Go 3-D
April 19, 2010
Post-Avatar, it seems some of our favorite filmmakers have caught3-D fever. Just in the past week, it’s been confirmed that Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, and Werner Herzog will soon be getting . . . Read more »
Press Notes
Press Notes: Wings of Desire
November 16, 2009
Interview magazine’s Darrell Hartman is just one of many critics heralding the release of Wings of Desire in Criterion Blu-ray and DVD special editions: “Rilke-inspired interior monologues; . . . Read more »
Features
On Wings of Desire
By November 09, 2009
The following essay originally appeared in The Logic of Images, a collection of Wim Wenders’s writing that was published in 1992. In the last few years, since Paris, Texas, Berlin has been the . . . Read more »
Film Essays
Wings of Desire: Watch the Skies
By November 03, 2009
If ever there was a European art film that could be all things to all people, it’s Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire (1987). Marking Wenders’s career midpoint like a lightning strike cutting across . . . Read more »
Features
An Attempted Description of an Indescribable Film
By November 02, 2009
The following, written in 1986, is from the first treatment for Wings of Desire. And we, spectators always, everywhere, looking at, never out of, everything! —Rilke, “The Eighth Elegy” At first . . . Read more »
Clippings
Waiting in the Wings
October 14, 2009
Seekers of Criterion behind-the-scenes tidbits, take note! Our own Susan Arosteguy speaks with the travel and culture website Museyon Guides in a two-part interview about our upcoming special . . . Read more »
