Wings of Desire
Wings of Desire (, ; ) 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.
Plot
In a Berlin divided by the Berlin Wall, two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, watch the city, unseen and unheard by its human inhabitants. They observe and listen to the thoughts of Berliners, including a pregnant woman in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, a young prostitute standing by a busy road, and a broken man who feels betrayed by his wife. Their raison d'être is, as Cassiel says, to "assemble, testify, preserve" reality. Damiel and Cassiel have always existed as angels; they were in Berlin before it was a city, and before there were any humans.
Awards
Cast
- Annelinde Gerstl
- Beatrice Manowski
- Bernard Eisenschitz
- Blixa Bargeld
- Bruno Ganz
- Chick Ortega
- Crime & the City Solution
- Curt Bois
- Didier Flamand
- Epic Soundtracks
- Erika Rabau
- Hans Marquardt
- Hans-Martin Stier
- Harry Howard
- Johanna Penski
- Jürgen Heinrich
- Kid Congo Powers
- Lajos Kovács
- Laurent Petitgand
- Margita Haberland
- Mick Harvey
- Nick Cave
- Otto Kuhnle
- Otto Sander
- Peter Falk
- Roland Wolf
- Rowland S. Howard
- Simon Bonney
- Solveig Dommartin
- Teresa Harder
- Thierry Noir
- Thomas Wydler
- Ulrike Schirm