Wings of Desire (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD) PG-13
There are angels on the streets of Berlin.
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- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 7 minutes
- Video: Black & White / Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 3, 2009
- Originally Released: 1987
- Label: Criterion
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz & Peter Falk | |
Performer: | Hans Martin Stier | |
Featured: | Crime and the City Solution & Nick Cave | |
Directed by | Wim Wenders | |
Edited by | Peter Przygodda | |
Screenwriting by | Peter Handke & Wim Wenders | |
Composition by | Jürgen Knieper & Jurgen Kneiper | |
Produced by | Anatole Daumon & Wim Wenders | |
Director of Photography: | Henri Alekan |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1987 -
Best Director: Wim Wenders
Entertainment Reviews:
...A magnificent film of sublime beauty and contagious optimism....Alekan's visual power, softly swirling and mysterious, is unsurpassed...
Los Angeles Times
...The film evokes a mood of reverie, elegy and meditation....You're seduced into the spell of this movie....CITY OF ANGELS is a skillful romantic comedy...
Chicago Sun-Times
A fantasy that... goes right in spite of its solemn style.
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Wall Street Journal
One of the few truly great movies to come out of the '80s.
Hollywood Reporter
Wings of Desire is one of Wenders's most stunning achievements.
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Chicago Reader
Whether or not Wings of Desire qualifies as the most poetic feature to grace the silver screen, it certainly earns that honour where Berlin is concerned.
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Goethe-Institute Australien Magazine
...[WINGS OF DESIRE] has a loveliness of conception that, for a time, keeps it as feathery as an angel's wings....Wender's mpst ambitous effort yet, and [it] certainly radiates immense promise...
New York Times
Product Description:
The sky over Wenders's war-scarred Berlin is full of gentle angels wearing trench coats who listen to the tortured thoughts of mortals and try to comfort them. One wishes to become mortal after falling in love with a beautiful trapeze artist. Peter Falk, as himself, assists in the transformation by explaining the simple joys of a human experience, such as the sublime combination of coffee and cigarettes. The result is a film that is simultaneously sentimental and cerebral.
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WINGS OF DESIRE (Der Himmel uber Berlin) is one of cinema's loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Gatz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts - fears, hopes, and dreams - of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give up his immortality to come back to earth to be with her. Made not long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, this stunning tapestry of sounds and images, shot in black and white and color by the legendary Henri Alekan, is movie poetry. And it forever made the name Wim Wenders synonymous with film art.
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