Wings of Desire

Synopsis

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.

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Cast

Bruno Ganz

Damiel

Solveig Dommartin

Marion

Otto Sander

Cassiel

Curt Bois

Homer

Peter Falk

The Filmstar

Hans Martin Stier

The Dying Man

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Elmar Wilms

A Sad Man

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Sigurd Rachman

The Suicide

Beatrice Manowski

Young Prostitute

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Bruno Rosaz

The Clown

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Laurent Petitgand

The Bandleader

Chick Ortega

The Drummer

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Otto Kuhnle

The Juggler

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Christoph Merg

The Juggler

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Peter Werner

The Manager

Teresa Harder

In the Library - The Angel

Jürgen Heinrich

In the Old Apartments

Annelinde Gerstl

On the Highway

Mick Harvey

Crime and The City Solution / Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

Nick Cave

Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

Crew

Art

• Heidi Lüdi Art Direction
• Werner Mooser Assistant Set Decoration
• Markus Pluta Set Designer
• Peter Alteneder Property Master
• Alexander Korn Set Designer
• Henrik Gross Assistant Property Master
• Thierry Noir Painter
• Joost van der Velden Sculptor
• Claude Lalanne Sculptor
• Esther Walz Property Master
• Uli Mayer Title Designer

Camera

• Henri Alekan Director of Photography
• Louis Cochet Assistant Camera
• Peter Arnold Additional Camera
• Achim Poulheim Focus Puller
• Martin Kukula Additional Camera
• Ralf Strathmann Still Photographer
• Klemens Becker Helicopter Camera
• Dieter Bähr Grip
• Klaus Krieger Helicopter Camera
• Agnès Godard Assistant Camera

Costume & Make-Up

• Victor Leitenbauer Makeup Artist
• Monika Jacobs Costume Design
• Regina Huyer Makeup Artist

Crew

• Andrei Tarkovsky In Memory Of
• Hans Seck Stunts
• François Lehr Thanks
• Major Gick Thanks
• Barbara von Weitershausen Thanks
• Yasujirō Ozu In Memory Of
• Wolfgang Rapior Catering
• Pierre Bergam Thanks
• François Truffaut In Memory Of
• Annette Seggert Catering
• Ulla Fukosawa-Oberbeckmann Thanks

Directing

• Wim Wenders Director
• Claire Denis First Assistant Director
• Carola Hochgräf Third Assistant Director
• Knut Winkler Second Assistant Director
• Gabriele Mattner Script Supervisor

Editing

• Peter Przygodda Editor
• Leni Pütz-Savieto Assistant Editor
• Dave Pultz Color Timer
• Anne Schnee Assistant Editor

Lighting

• Klaus Bieling Best Boy Electric
• Claus Gerling Lighting Technician
• Thomas Gosda Lighting Technician
• Bernd Hübner Gaffer
• Dieter Dentzer Lighting Technician

Production

• Anatole Dauman Producer
• Wim Wenders Producer
• Pascale Dauman Associate Producer
• Joachim von Mengershausen Associate Producer
• Ingrid Windisch Executive Producer
• Barbara von Wrangell Unit Manager
• Herbert Kerz Unit Manager
• Martin Karlinski Production Driver
• Ruediger Kersting Production Driver
• Dieter Stempnierwsky Production Driver
• Catherine Coste Production Secretary
• Inge Ruf Production Accountant

Sound

• Jürgen Knieper Original Music Composer
• Hartmut Eichgrün Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• Axel Arft Sound
• Jean-Paul Mugel Sound
• Uwe Thalmann Sound Assistant

Writing

• Peter Handke Screenplay
• Richard Reitinger Screenplay
• Wim Wenders Screenplay
• Bernard Eisenschitz Screenplay

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