Wings Of Desire - Original Trailer 1987 (13) Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto
Sander) are angels who watch over the city
of Berlin. They don't have harps or wings
(well, they usually don't have wings) and
they prefer overcoats to gossamer gowns.
But they can travel unseen through the
city, listening to people's thoughts,
watching their actions and studying their
lives. While they can make their presence
felt in small ways, only children and
other angels can see them. They spend
their days serenely observing, unable to
interact with people, and they feel
neither pain nor joy. One day, Damiel
finds his way into a circus and sees
Marion (Solveig Dommartin), a high-wire
artist, practicing her act; he is
immediately smitten. After the owners of
the circus tell the company that the show
is out of money and must disband, Marion
sinks into a funk, shuffling back to her
trailer to ponder what to do next. As he
watches her, Damiel makes a decision: he
wants to be human, and he wants to be with
Marion, to lift her spirits and, if need
be, to share her pain. Wim Wenders' Wings
of Desire is a remarkable modern fairy
tale about the nature of being alive. The
angels witness the gamut of human
emotions, and they experience the luxury
of simple pleasures (even a cup of coffee
and a cigarette) as ones who've never
known them. From the angels' viewpoint,
Berlin is seen in gorgeous black-and-white
-- strikingly beautiful but unreal; when
they join the humans, the image shifts to
rough but natural-looking color, and the
waltz-like grace of the angels' drift
through the city changes to a harsher
rhythm. Peter Falk appears as himself,
revealing a secret that we may not have
known about the man who played Columbo,
and there's also a brief but powerful
appearance by Nick Cave & the Bad
Seeds. Wings of Desire hinges on the
intangible and elusive, and it builds
something beautiful from those qualities.
Bruno Ganz - Damiel
Solveig Dommartin - Marion
Peter Falk - Himself
Otto Sander - Cassiel
Curt Bois - Homer
Blixa Bargeld - Member of Nick Cave and
the Bad Seeds
Paul Busch - Circus
Nick Cave - Himself
Didier Flamand - Angel at the library
Mick Harvey - Crime & the city
solution
Lajos Kovács - Marion's coach
Patrick Kreuzer
Beatrice Manowski - Young Prostitute
Olivier Picot - Air-raid shelter
Ulrike Schirm
Hans-Martin Stier - The Dying Man
Dirk Vogeley - On the highway
Peter Werner - Manager
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