Wings of Desire
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.
Critics Sentiment
Damiel meets Marion at Nick Cave concert in bar
Depressed Marion dances alone to Crime and City Solution
The film rises dramatically from Marion's solitary melancholy to Damiel's transformation and their transcendent meeting at the Nick Cave concert.
Wings of Desire builds steadily through contemplative observation and philosophical meditation to reach emotional transcendence in its final act. While some critics find the middle sections overly deliberate, most praise the film's visual poetry and the powerful payoff of Damiel's transformation and union with Marion. The consensus celebrates it as a masterpiece that rewards patient viewers with profound beauty.
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Bruno Ganz
Damiel
Solveig Dommartin
Marion
Otto Sander
Cassiel
Curt Bois
Homer
Peter Falk
The Filmstar
Hans Martin Stier
The Dying Man
Elmar Wilms
A Sad Man
Sigurd Rachman
The Suicide
Beatrice Manowski
Young Prostitute
Bruno Rosaz
The Clown
Laurent Petitgand
The Bandleader
Chick Ortega
The Drummer
Otto Kuhnle
The Juggler
Christoph Merg
The Juggler
Peter Werner
The Manager
Teresa Harder
In the Library - The Angel
Jürgen Heinrich
In the Old Apartments
Annelinde Gerstl
On the Highway
Mick Harvey
Crime and The City Solution / Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Nick Cave
Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Crew
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