A group of angels in the German capital look longingly upon the life of humans.
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Cast
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| Otto Sander | ... | Cassiel | |
| Peter Falk | ... | Peter Falk | |
| Horst Buchholz | ... | Tony Baker | |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | ... | Mikhail Gorbachev (as Michail S. Gorbatschow) | |
| Nastassja Kinski | ... | Raphaela | |
| Heinz Rühmann | ... | Konrad | |
| Bruno Ganz | ... | Damiel | |
| Solveig Dommartin | ... | Marion | |
| Rüdiger Vogler | ... | Phillip Winter | |
| Lou Reed | ... | Lou Reed | |
| Willem Dafoe | ... | Emit Flesti | |
| Monika Hansen | ... | Hanna / Gertrud Becker | |
| Günter Meisner | ... | Fälscher | |
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Ronald Nitschke | ... | Patzke |
| Hanns Zischler | ... | Dr. Becker | |
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A group of angels in the German capital look longingly upon the life of humans.
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Country:
GermanyRelease Date:
21 December 1993 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$10,500,000 (estimated)Gross USA:
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DolbyAspect Ratio:
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Cassiel: I know all prophecy, but not this one. You made it up.
Emit Flesti: What's the difference? It just happened.
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Yella Rottländer appears in a cameo as the guardian angel of Phillip Winter, played by Rüdiger Vogler, recomposing the couple of leading actors in Wim Wenders's Alice in the Cities (1974) after 20 years. See more »Goofs
When Karl is lighting the old film to use it as a fuse (simulating old nitrate film which is highly flammable and known to self ignite) you can see the line of gun or flash powder underneath the film when it moves. See more »Quotes
Emit Flesti: Have you heard the prophecy? "In the Year of Hate, when all that is foreign is despised, dark riders will enter the harbor, seize the ship and everyone on it and sail them straight into hell"Cassiel: I know all prophecy, but not this one. You made it up.
Emit Flesti: What's the difference? It just happened.
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The film is dedicated to actor Curt Bois who worked with Wim Wenders in "Der Himmel über Berlin". See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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I can say this movie is one of the best movies I have ever watched (and I watched a lot of them). The roles were very well interpreted by good actors. Even when they are no actors at all, as Mikhail Gorbachyov who appears in a scene. Many things make this movie special. In it five languages are being spoken. Nevertheless it doesn't really matter. The protagonists can understand what is being said as though language difference is not that relevant for humans to understand each other. The pictures are the usual great Wim Wenders pictures. Black and white pictures indicate the coolness of the world of angels while colors indicate how colorful the world could be for humans (if they can see it!). It is an analysis of the relationship of man with the world around. Humans think that they are controlling the world, but the world is controlling their lives in fact. It shows how blind we can be in contemplating the beauty of the world around us. In this matter one could mention the movie called "The awakenings" (1990) although the two movies are in most aspects different. It is a movie about an angel who wants to become human in order to be able to understand humans, and how he gets into a complicated life. It helps a lot to see "The wings of desire" where the story between angels and humans started. Some things are hard to understand when you don't know the first movie. This movie is also an analysis of time. Emit Flesti (read backward Time itself) is a very interesting character that can communicate with both angels and humans, and who speaks about almost always about time and its meaning. For me he was also a mix of Lucifer and the death angel as well. The background of the whole story is Berlin after the fall of the wall, whereas "The wings of desire" took place before the end of the cold war.
This movie makes a genius use of fantasy to analyze our lives. Its main message is : "We (the angels) are not the message. We are the messengers and the message is love".