The sky over Wenders's war-scarred Berlin is full of gentle angels wearing trench coats who listen to the tortured thoughts of mortals and try to comfort them. One wishes to become mortal after falling in love with a beautiful trapeze artist. Peter Falk, as himself, assists in the transformation by explaining the simple joys of a human experience, such as the sublime combination of coffee and cigarettes. The result is a film that is simultaneously sentimental and cerebral.

DVD Features:

Region 1
Widescreen - 1.66
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English, French, German
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French, German
Subtitles - English, French

Distributor Notes: WINGS OF DESIRE (Der Himmel uber Berlin) is one of cinema's loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Gatz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts - fears, hopes, and 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 to 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. 

Bruno Ganz: German actor, WINGS OF DESIRE
Solveig Dommartin: French German actress, WINGS OF DESIRE (1987)
Otto Sander: Actor, FAR AWAY SO CLOSE, WINGS OF DESIRE
Peter Falk: American actor, COLUMBO
Hans Martin Stier: German actor, WINGS OF DESIRE

Wim Wenders: Director,screenwriter,producer, WINGS OF DESIRE

Wim Wenders: Director,screenwriter,producer, WINGS OF DESIRE
Anatole Daumon: 

Wim Wenders: Director,screenwriter,producer, WINGS OF DESIRE
Peter Handke: Novelist/Screenwriter

Jurgen Kneiper: Score, "Wings of Desire"

Peter Przygodda: Editor

"...Visualized through some inspiring cinematography..."
"...The film evokes a mood of reverie, elegy and meditation....You're seduced into the spell of this movie....CITY OF ANGELS is a skillful romantic comedy..."
"...Legendary cinematographer Henri Alekan shot the film's brooding first half in emotionally stirring monochrome....[Later] this truly original piece of work switches to color..."
"...A magnificent film of sublime beauty and contagious optimism....Alekan's visual power, softly swirling and mysterious, is unsurpassed..."
"...Wender's response to each of the Berlin locations, captured so evocatively by Henri Alekan's monochrome photography, reveals a profound understanding of their cultural significance and poetic potential..."
"...[WINGS OF DESIRE] has a loveliness of conception that, for a time, keeps it as feathery as an angel's wings....Wender's mpst ambitous effort yet, and [it] certainly radiates immense promise..."