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Wings of Desire is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Wim Wenders released in USA on 29 april 1988 with Bruno Ganz

Wings of Desire (1987)

Der Himmel über Berlin

Wings of Desire
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Released in USA 29 april 1988
Length 2h8
Directed by
OriginGerman
Genres Drama,    Fantastic,    Fantasy,    Romance
Rating78% 3.948953.948953.948953.948953.94895

Wings of Desire (German: Der Himmel über Berlin, "The Sky/Heaven Over Berlin") is a 1987 Franco-German romantic fantasy film directed by Wim Wenders. The film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and listen to the thoughts of the human inhabitants and comfort those who are in distress. Even though the city is densely populated, many of the people are isolated or estranged from their loved ones. One of the angels, played by Bruno Ganz, falls in love with a beautiful, lonely trapeze artist.
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Set in contemporary West Berlin (at the time still enclosed by the Berlin Wall), Wings of Desire follows two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, as they roam the city, unseen and unheard by its human inhabitants, observing and listening to the diverse thoughts of Berliners: a pregnant woman in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, a painter struggling to find inspiration, a broken man who thinks his girlfriend no longer loves him. Their raison d'être is, as Cassiel says, to "assemble, testify, preserve" reality.
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