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Wings of Desire (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Blu-ray

PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) :: Criterion Collection :: Released: 2009-11-03


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Wings of Desire (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Summary WINGS OF DESIRE BLU-RAY (BLU-RAY DISC)

Wings Of Desire (der Himmel über Berlin) 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, And 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 To 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.

director-approved Special Edition Features

• New, Restored High-definition Digital Transfer, Supervised And Approved By Director Wim Wenders With Dts-hd Master Audio 5.1 Soundtrack • Audio Commentary Featuring Wenders And Actor Peter Falk • The Angels Among Us (2003), A Documentary Featuring Interviews With Wenders, Falk, Actors Bruno Ganz And Otto Sander, Writer Peter Handke, And Composer Jürgen Knieper • Excerpt From: Wim Wenders Berlin Jan. 87, An Episode Of The French Television Program Cinéma Cinémas, Including On-set Footage • Interview With Director Of Photography Henri Alekan • Deleted Scenes And Outtakes • Excerpts From The Films Alekan La Lumière (1985) And Remembrance: Film For Curt Bois (about The Actor Who Plays Homer In Wings Of Desire) • Notes And Photos By Production Designer Heidi Lüdi And Art Director Toni Lüdi • Trailers • New And Improved English Subtitle Translation • Plus: A Booklet Featuring An Essay By Critic Michael Atkinson And Writings By Wenders And Handke



"There are angels over the streets of Berlin," quotes the movie poster, but these are like no angels you've ever seen. Bundled in dark overcoats, they watch over the city with ears open to the heartbeat of the human soul, listening to the internal musings and yearnings of earthbound humans like existential detectives. In these delicate, astounding scenes we float through the thoughts of dozens Berlin citizens, from the weary and worn to the hopeful and young, as the angels record the magic moments for some heavenly record. But when Damiel (the empathic and sensitive Bruno Ganz) falls in love with an angel of another sort, the lonely trapeze artist Marion (willowy, sad-eyed Solveig Dommartin), he gives up the contemplation and observation of life to experience it himself.

Wim Wenders's most purely romantic film is like poetry on celluloid, a celebration of the transient and fragile moments of being human: the warmth of a cup of coffee on a cold day, the embrace of a friend, the touch of a lover, the rapture of love. Opening with an angel's-eye view of Berlin in silvery black and white (delicately captured by the great cinematographer Henri Alekan, who photographed Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast 40 years earlier), it transforms into a gauzy color world when Damiel "crosses over" by sheer will. Peter Falk plays himself as a fallen angel with a special sensitivity for celestial visitors ("I can't see you, but I know you're there," he proclaims), and Otto Sander, whose smiling eyes brighten a face etched by eons of waiting and watching, is Damiel's partner. Wenders made a sequel in 1993, Faraway, So Close, and Hollywood remade the film as City of Angels with Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan. --Sean Axmaker

Wings of Desire [Criterion... Blu-Ray DVD Techincal Details Cast: Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk
Director: Wim Wenders
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Running Time: 127 mins
UPC: 715515046411
Binding: Blu-ray
Studio: Criterion Collection
Release Date: 2009-11-03
Region Code: 1
Specs: AC-3, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen

Language & Subtitles German (Original Language), English (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed),
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