Wings of Desire
- Bruno Ganz: Damiel
- Solveig Dommartin: Marion
- Otto Sander: Cassiel
- Curt Bois: Homer, the old poet
- Peter Falk: The Movie Star
- Hans -Martin Bull: The dying man
- Anne Linde Gerstl: you
- Beatrice Manowski: streetwalker
Wings of Desire is a film by Wim Wenders from the year 1987.
Action
The angels Damiel and Cassiel act as observers of the world, particularly in Berlin. You can not intervene in the lives of the people and not give them to detect. However, you can infuse them new courage. The desire to participate in the life of mortals, when Damiel is so great that he is ready for it to give up his immortality. With an ancient suit of armor as seed money, he is thrown into the world. In a trapeze artist who seemingly detached from the earth's gravity, it finds its counterpart.
The story is framed by Peter Handke's poem song From being a child.
Reviews
" A poetic love letter to life, to sensuality and to the limitations of earthly existence. "
" Wim Wenders' meditative masterpiece is movie poetry to dream. In intoxicating black -and-white images and monochromatic colors, the theater veteran Otto Sander and Bruno enchanted full with intense game. Floating camera movements and sensual sound collages give this award-winning film, a beam power of almost hypnotic effect. "
" Camera: Henri Alekan. This is almost everything you Wenders' abundant naive and long film ( Screenplay: Peter Handke ) may take credit. A garrulous, be kränkeltes of Arts and Crafts, synthetic piece of cinema. "
" Wings of Desire creates tension not just in that it herunterfilmt his plot. Rather, it creates a mood of sadness and isolation, longing and transience of all earthly things. If the person is in fact the only animal that knows that it exists in time, this film is about exactly this knowledge. A beautiful film. "
Awards
The sky over Berlin won numerous awards. He received the 1988 German Film Award in Gold, the Bavarian Film Award and European Film Award. At the Cannes Film Festival in 1987 Wim Wenders won the award for best director. On the film festival in São Paulo in 1988, the film won the Audience Prize. He was also nominated for a César Award for Best Foreign Language Film and won the prize of the Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma for best foreign film.
Others
1993 turned Wim Wenders entitled Faraway, so close! a sequel to Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz and Solveig Dommartin in the lead roles. However, the film failed to match the popularity of its predecessor.
In 1998, the theme of the film under the title City of Angels was ( with Meg Ryan and Nicolas Cage) adapted again.
For the 20th anniversary of the film came in 2007 with new copies - and digital - again to the movies.
In an interview in 2009 in Tel -Aviv Wim Wenders reported that he had one of his most unusual experiences with the film in Tokyo. There only women found themselves in an ever- crowded movie theater the movie. No one can explain this there. A presumption is, because in the film the men, so the angels listen.
The film is also the subject in a television commercial from 2012 for the Samsung Galaxy Note. Wim Wenders reported in this spot of the shooting of the film and how much Berlin has changed in the last 25 years.
Pop musician Alanis Morissette turned 2012 in the German capital for their song Guardian, which is on the album Havoc and Bright Lights, a video clip based on The sky over Berlin. On bild.de the singer told in July 2012: "With the video, I take my hat off Wim Wenders' film, he is celebrating its 25th anniversary. . "