Wings of Desire
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisi...
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds — with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk — that it might be possible for him to take human form.
Nick Cave
Blixa Bargeld
Otto Sander
Wim Wenders
Peter Falk
Bruno Ganz
Jürgen Heinrich
Hans Martin Stier
Genres: Fantasy, Romance, Drama
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds — with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk — that it might be possible for him to take human form.
Cast
Nick Cave
Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Blixa Bargeld
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Otto Sander
Cassiel
Wim Wenders
Director
Peter Falk
The Filmstar
Bruno Ganz
Damiel
Jürgen Heinrich
In the Old Apartments
Hans Martin Stier
The Dying Man
Chick Ortega
The Drummer
Solveig Dommartin
Marion
Curt Bois
Homer
Elmar Wilms
A Sad Man
Sigurd Rachman
The Suicide
Beatrice Manowski
Young Prostitute
Bruno Rosaz
The Clown
Laurent Petitgand
The Bandleader
Otto Kuhnle
The Juggler
Christoph Merg
The Juggler
Peter Werner
The Manager
Teresa Harder
In the Library - The Angel
Annelinde Gerstl
On the Highway
Mick Harvey
Crime and The City Solution / Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Susanne Vierkötter
In the Circus
Paul Busch
In the Circus
Karin Busch
In the Circus
Ingrid Windisch
Executive Producer