| Genre: | Fantasy |
| Year: | 1987 |
| Rating: | ? |
| Length: | 127 min |
| Country: | Germany |
| Cast: | Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Peter Falk |
| Credits: | Directed by Wim Wenders |
| Awards: | Best Director Award at Cannes in 1987 - Wim Wenders |
This film was inspired by one of Rainer Maria Rilke's poems. WINGS OF DESIRE tells a story of two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, who deescend to earth to observe and minister to the people of Berlin. Damiel falls in love with a trapeze artist and decides to give up his immortality, leave the eternity, and by indulging in earthly pleasures of love and romance, become human. This angel's eye view of a modern and crumbling Berlin inhabited by a melancholy population in need of hope is both bitter and moving. The film is as much a reexamination of the divided city of Berlin before the Fall and its spectral inhabitants as it is a love story. The rich black and white photography intermixed with bursts of evocative colors helps to contrast the solemn Berlin of yesterday with a new and vital city, heaven with earth.
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