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Wings of Desire [Sub: Eng]
The film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and listen to the thoughts of the human inhabitants and comfort those who are in distress. One of them tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human when he falls in love with a mortal.
23 March 1959, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
12 March 1947
1945, Berlin, Germany
1950
29 August 1958, Rochester, Victoria, Australia
9 February 1944, Bátaszék, Hungary
16 September 1927, New York City, New York, USA
June 25, 2011
How brilliant is Wings of Desire? Understand that Peter Falk is playing himself - that is to say, he's playing actor Peter Falk, who happened to be an angel himself until he elected to become human decades earlier.
November 29, 2010
The cinematography by Henri Alekan is simply astonishing in its spare yet lyrical quality.
November 27, 2012
Wings of Desire has an ingenuousness, a sweetness of spirit, that triumphs over the conventional rigidities of its calculation.
May 20, 2003
Startlingly original at first, Wings of Desire is in the end damagingly overloaded.
November 27, 2012
A beautiful, literate and romantic piece of cinema.
August 05, 2003
One of the few truly great movies to come out of the '80s.
November 27, 2012
A sublimely beautiful, deeply romantic film for our times.
March 23, 2011
Demands to be seen by cinema lovers.
November 27, 2012
This story of angels is really an examination of what it means to be human -- in the most profound sense but via the smallest, most trivial details.
July 09, 2007
Wings of Desire is one of Wenders's most stunning achievements.
November 27, 2012
A fantasy that... goes right in spite of its solemn style.
January 26, 2006
Few films are so rich, so intriguing, or so ambitious.

