Wings of Desire (35 mm)

  • A young woman with white wings flying up in the dome
  • Iconic Bruno Ganz in a coat as a city's angel sitting by the wing of a bronze statue

“Wings of Desire” is one of cinema’s loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears, hopes, 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 and 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.

Runtime
2h 8m
Year
1987
Director
Wim Wenders
Format
35mm
Country
Germany
Categories
WIMS OF DESIRE , Featured
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