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Wings of Desire
Film / 1987

Wings of Desire

Directed by Wim Wenders
DramaFantasyRomance

★ 7.8/10Audience rating

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.

The story

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.

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Damiel and Cassiel Collection

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Cast

Bruno GanzDamiel Solveig DommartinMarion Otto SanderCassiel Curt BoisHomer Peter FalkThe Filmstar Hans Martin StierThe Dying Man Elmar WilmsA Sad Man Sigurd RachmanThe Suicide Beatrice ManowskiYoung Prostitute Bruno RosazThe Clown Laurent PetitgandThe Bandleader Chick OrtegaThe Drummer
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Otto KuhnleThe Juggler Christoph MergThe Juggler Peter WernerThe Manager Teresa HarderIn the Library - The Angel Jürgen HeinrichIn the Old Apartments Annelinde GerstlOn the Highway Mick HarveyCrime and The City Solution / Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Nick CaveSelf - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Blixa BargeldNick Cave and The Bad Seeds Susanne VierkötterIn the Circus Paul BuschIn the Circus Karin BuschIn the Circus Irene MoessingerIn the Circus FrankyIn the Circus - Last But Not Least Daniela NasimcovaIn the Library - The Angel Bernard EisenschitzIn the Library - The Angel Didier FlamandIn the Library - The Angel Rolf HenkeIn the Library - The Angel Scott KirbyIn the Library - The Angel Franck GleminIn the Library - The Angel Jerry BarrishIn the Bunker - The Director Jeanette PollakIn the Bunker - The Costume Designer Christian BartelsIn the Bunker - The 'Hitler Youth' David CromeIn the Bunker - The Assistant Director Käthe FürstenwerthIn the Bunker Werner SchönrockIn the Bunker Bernd RamienIn the Bunker Erika RabauIn the Bunker Silvia Blagojeva ItscherenskaIn the Bunker Sultan MeralIn the Bunker Olivier PicotIn the Bunker Jochen GliscinskyIn the Bunker Erich SchupkeIn the Bunker Margarete HafnerIn the Old Apartments Oliver HerderIn the Old Apartments Margitta HaberlandIn the Old Apartments Ralf StrathmannIn the Old Apartments Walter RatayszakIn the Old Apartments Charlotte OberbergIn the Old Apartments Lubinka KosticIn the Old Apartments Gisela WesterboerOn the Highway Andreas ValentinOn the Highway Wolf-Dirk VogeleyOn the Highway Ruth RischkeOn the Highway Simon BonneyCrime and The City Solution Harry HowardCrime and The City Solution Rowland S. HowardCrime and The City Solution Thomas WydlerNick Cave and The Bad Seeds Roland WolfNick Cave and The Bad Seeds Kid Congo PowersSelf Denis RodriguezWith the Children Dieta von AsterWith the Children Gustav GeislerWith the Children Paul GeislerWith the Children Lorenz GeislerWith the Children Slađana KostićWith the Children Benedikt SchumannWith the Children Nicolas RothWith the Children Marcus StenzelWith the Children Benjamin FerchowWith the Children Mario MeyerWith the Children Mark LeuschnerWith the Children Tibor DahlenburgWith the Children Lia HarderWith the Children Mascha NoakWith the Children Vera ButzekWith the Children Donald BehrendtWith the Children Patric Kreuzer

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