Found in: Out Of The Rubble
Wings of Desire
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Wings of Desire

classified 12A S Sold Out

Out Of The Rubble: Berlin On Film

Film

Please note: This was screened in Oct 2023

Director
Wim Wenders
Cast
Peter Falk, Curt Bois, Otto Sander, Solveig Dommartin
Details
129 mins, Subtitled, 1987, Germany
Primary language
German

One of cinema's most hauntingly beautiful city symphonies, Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire transcends concrete barriers to explore a Berlin of the imagination.

A dispassionate angel stands atop a statue on a winter morning, watching over Berlin, he desires nothing more that to be human. His name is Daniel (Bruno Ganz) and he renounces his pastoral care of the city's sad and lonely (and the immortality that goes with it) to find love with trapeze artist Marion.

Like Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death, the afterlife in Wings of Desire is a world in monochrome. Only the living can see in full colour and it is their lives, with their moments of sorrow and joy, that Wenders captures so eloquently.

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