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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.
















9 October 1959, Zurich, Switzerland



28 September 1959, Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France


27 March 1961, La Puente, California, USA






22 September 1957, Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia
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May 20, 2003
Startlingly original at first, Wings of Desire is in the end damagingly overloaded.
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.
January 26, 2006
Few films are so rich, so intriguing, or so ambitious.
August 05, 2003
One of the few truly great movies to come out of the '80s.
March 23, 2011
Demands to be seen by cinema lovers.
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 27, 2012
A sublimely beautiful, deeply romantic film for our times.
November 29, 2010
The cinematography by Henri Alekan is simply astonishing in its spare yet lyrical quality.
July 09, 2007
Wings of Desire is one of Wenders's most stunning achievements.
November 27, 2012
Wings of Desire has an ingenuousness, a sweetness of spirit, that triumphs over the conventional rigidities of its calculation.
November 27, 2012
A fantasy that... goes right in spite of its solemn style.
November 27, 2012
A beautiful, literate and romantic piece of cinema.