Wings of Desire
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An angel watching over Cold War Berlin falls in love with a lonely trapeze artist and longs to trade eternity for one moment of human experience.
Why watch: Won Best Director at Cannes. Wenders filmed Berlin's angels two years before the Wall fell.
Cast
Bruno Ganz as Damiel
Solveig Dommartin as Marion
Otto Sander as Cassiel
Curt Bois as Homer
Peter Falk as The Filmstar
Hans Martin Stier as The Dying Man
Elmar Wilms as A Sad Man
Sigurd Rachman as The Suicide
Beatrice Manowski as Young Prostitute
Bruno Rosaz as The Clown
Laurent Petitgand as The Bandleader
Chick Ortega as The Drummer
Otto Kuhnle as The Juggler
Christoph Merg as The Juggler
Peter Werner as The Manager
Crew
Wim Wenders — Director
Peter Handke — Screenplay
Richard Reitinger — Screenplay
Wim Wenders — Screenplay
Bernard Eisenschitz — Screenplay
Anatole Dauman — Producer
Wim Wenders — Producer
Ingrid Windisch — Executive Producer
Henri Alekan — Director of Photography
Peter Przygodda — Editor
Heidi Lüdi — Art Direction
Monika Jacobs — Costume Design
Jürgen Knieper — Original Music Composer
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