PG-13Wings of Desire

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Play Time: 128 mins
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Wings of Desire

Overview:
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.

Original Title:Der Himmel über Berlin
Status: Released (1987-09-23)
Awards:Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award18 wins & 14 nominations total
BoxOffice:$3,333,969
Screen:Wim Wenders, Peter Handke, Richard Reitinger
Productions: Argos Films, Wim Wenders Stiftung, WDR, Road Movies, Argos Film Productions
Production Countries: France, Germany
Spoken Languages: English, עִבְרִית, Español, 日本語, Français, Türkçe, Deutsch
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CinemaSerf

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Bruno Ganz is on top form in this characterful study of desire - physical and spiritual. He is "Daniel" an angel invisible to all but his own kind (and to the innocence of children) who finds himself, with his colleague "Cassiel" (Otto Sander) policing the city of Berlin at the end o ....

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Filipe Manuel Neto

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**Essay on Sleepiness.** When I decided to see this film, I did it for three reasons: the first is the participation of Bruno Ganz, a German actor that I appreciate and that I started to like after seeing him do excellent work in other films such as “The Fall”; the second is the e ....

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