Wings of the desire

the Wings of the desire ( Der Himmel über Berlin ) is a Franco-German film carried out by Wim Wenders, left in 1987, on a scenario of Wim Wenders with the writer Peter Handke. It received the Prix of the setting in scene with the Cannes festival in 1987.

Synopsis

Of Berlin, before the fall of the wall, the Cassiel angels and Damiel take care the human ones and collect since centuries the stream of consciousness of their spirituality. Of their vision in black and white of the world, they can only attend the events, without anything to feel, taste, touch. They saw the beginning of the light, the rivers, the animals. When the first man appeared, they discovered with him the laughter, the word, the war. Damiel, which always felt the desire to carry in its turn the human condition, if is touched by Marion the trapezist, if allured by his heart and its grace which it finally decides to become human, and consequently mortal.

Data sheet

Distribution

  • Bruno Ganz: Damiel
  • Solveig Dommartin : Marion
  • Otto Sander : Cassiel
  • Peter Falk: itself
  • Curt Wood: Homer
  • Nick Undermines: itself
  • Hans Martin Stier: the dead man
  • Elmar Wilms: a sad man
  • Sigurd Rachman: committed suicide the
  • Beatrice Manowski: the young prostitute
  • Lajos Kovacs: the coach of Marion
  • Bruno Rosaz: a clown
  • Laurent Petitgand: the leader of the group
  • Flemish Didier: an angel of the library

Around film

  • the distribution is marked by the presence of the actor states-unien Peter Falk, known to be the hero of the police series, Columbo .

  • Wenders turned one following this film, entitled Si far, so near! ( In weiter Ferne, so nah! ) where Willem Dafoe and Nastassja Kinski comes to join Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander and Peter Falk in the distribution. The film is held after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
  • the film was diffused at the time of the inaugural evening of the Franco-German television channel Arte in May 1992.
  • the circus is called Alekan, like the director of the photography of the film Henri Alekan.
  • the wings of the desire enormously inspired the realization of the film the City of the angels of Brad Silberling.

External bonds

  • a page dedicated to film by Philippe Serf
  • Card IMDb

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