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Wings of Desire (Special Edition)

starring: Curt Bois, Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk, Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander

: Wings of Desire (Special Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792856160
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792856163
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 01, 2003
Running Time: 128 minutes
Sales Rank: 14272
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1987



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From Oscar®-nominated* writer/director Wim Wenders (Buena Vista Social Club) comes this 'exhilarating' (Vanity Fair) and life-affirming tale that won him the 1987 Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival and inspired City of Angels. Co-written with Peter Handke, this 'enchanting' (The New York Times) film about the joy of life is 'that rare thing a work of true originality' (Newsweek)! Damiel (Bruno Ganz) is a lonely angel who roams the streets of Berlin providing comfort to mortals in need. But when he is drawn into the life of a beautifuland troubledtrapeze artist, he experiences love for the first time and does everything in his power to be seen, heard and felt by her. Jeopardizing his divine position, Damiel is faced with a most difficult decision: either give up love or lose his eternal wings forever! *1999: Documentary Feature, Buena Vista Social Club

Amazon.com:
'There are angels over the streets of Berlin,' quotes the movie poster, but these are like no angels you've ever seen. Bundled in dark overcoats, they watch over the city with ears open to the heartbeat of the human soul, listening to the internal musings and yearnings of earthbound humans like existential detectives. In these delicate, astounding scenes we float through the thoughts of dozens Berlin citizens, from the weary and worn to the hopeful and young, as the angels record the magic moments for some heavenly record. But when Damiel (the empathic and sensitive Bruno Ganz) falls in love with an angel of another sort, the lonely trapeze artist Marion (willowy, sad-eyed Solveig Dommartin), he gives up the contemplation and observation of life to experience it himself.

Wim Wenders's most purely romantic film is like poetry on celluloid, a celebration of the transient and fragile moments of being human: the warmth of a cup of coffee on a cold day, the embrace of a friend, the touch of a lover, the rapture of love. Opening with an angel's-eye view of Berlin in silvery black and white (delicately captured by the great cinematographer Henri Alekan, who photographed Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast 40 years earlier), it transforms into a gauzy color world when Damiel 'crosses over' by sheer will. Peter Falk plays himself as a fallen angel with a special sensitivity for celestial visitors ('I can't see you, but I know you're there,' he proclaims), and Otto Sander, whose smiling eyes brighten a face etched by eons of waiting and watching, is Damiel's partner. Wenders made a sequel in 1993, Faraway, So Close, and Hollywood remade the film as City of Angels with Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan. --Sean Axmaker



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Angels at Work
I was under the impression that "Wings of Desire" was a unique love story and I guess it is. However ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Wings of Desire DVD
Not being a professional writer, I don't know if my review can give justice to a film like 'Wings of Desire'. ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Down to Earth
Wim Wenders' gentle poem on the seductive pleasures of life itself is a must for film lovers. Not only is the ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Living breathing poetry...
Like my title suggests, `Der Himmel uber Berlin' is a film of intensely angelic proportions; a film that is the ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Wim Wenders' best film
Though some can argue about Paris, Texas or the likes of Faraway, So Close!, I believe this to be Wim Wenders' best ... Read More

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