Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire) 1987 PG
When
2.45 pm, Sat 10 Aug 2019 (128 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
About
‘Wings of Desire is one of cinema’s loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears, hopes, 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 and 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.’ Criterion
Production Credits
- Director: Wim Wenders
- Script: Peter Handke, Richard Reitinger, Wim Wenders
- Producers: Anatole Dauman, Wim Wenders
- Cinematographer: Henri Alekan
- Cast: Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk
- Editor: Peter Przygodda
- Art Director: Heidi Lüdi
- Music: Jürgen Knieper
- Costume Designer: Monika Jacobs
- Print Source: Madman Entertainment
- Rights: Madman Entertainment
- Year: 1987
- Runtime: 128 minutes
- Countries: West Germany, France
- Languages: Hebrew, Turkish, French, English, German, Japanese, Spanish
- Subtitles: English
- Sound: Stereo
- Colour: Colour, Black & White
- Shooting Format: 35mm
- Screening Format: 4K DCP