---
title: 'Wings of Desire (1987)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Wim Wenders'
released: '1987-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 128
certification: 'PG-13'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Fantasy'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
  - 'France'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/wings-of-desire-1987'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093191/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Wings of Desire (1987)

1987 · PG-13 · 128 min · Drama, Fantasy · Germany, France

Original title: Der Himmel über Berlin

## Synopsis

Wings of Desire is a 1987 romantic fantasy film written by Wim Wenders, Peter Handke and Richard Reitinger, and directed by Wenders. The film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and listen to the thoughts of its human inhabitants, comforting the distressed. Even though the city is densely populated, many of the people are isolated or estranged from their loved ones. One of the angels, played by Bruno Ganz, falls in love with a beautiful, lonely trapeze artist, played by Solveig Dommartin. The angel chooses to become mortal so that he can experience human sensory pleasures, ranging from enjoying food to touching a loved one, and so that he can discover human love with the trapeze artist.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Wim Wenders](https://cinepixo.com/people/wim-wenders)
- **Screenplay:** [Wim Wenders](https://cinepixo.com/people/wim-wenders), [Peter Handke](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-handke)
- **Producer:** [Wim Wenders](https://cinepixo.com/people/wim-wenders), [Anatole Dauman](https://cinepixo.com/people/anatole-dauman)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Jürgen Knieper](https://cinepixo.com/people/jurgen-knieper)
- **Director of Photography:** [Henri Alekan](https://cinepixo.com/people/henri-alekan)
- **Editor:** [Peter Przygodda](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-przygodda)

## Cast

- [Otto Kuhnle](https://cinepixo.com/people/otto-kuhnle)
- [Ulrike Schirm](https://cinepixo.com/people/ulrike-schirm)
- [Laurent Petitgand](https://cinepixo.com/people/laurent-petitgand)
- [Blixa Bargeld](https://cinepixo.com/people/blixa-bargeld)
- [Hans-Martin Stier](https://cinepixo.com/people/hans-martin-stier)
- [Teresa Harder](https://cinepixo.com/people/teresa-harder)
- [Curt Bois](https://cinepixo.com/people/curt-bois)
- [Lajos Kovács](https://cinepixo.com/people/lajos-kovacs)
- [Erika Rabau](https://cinepixo.com/people/erika-rabau)
- [Bernard Eisenschitz](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernard-eisenschitz)
- [Mick Harvey](https://cinepixo.com/people/mick-harvey)
- [Chick Ortega](https://cinepixo.com/people/chick-ortega)
- [Thomas Wydler](https://cinepixo.com/people/thomas-wydler)
- [Simon Bonney](https://cinepixo.com/people/simon-bonney)
- [Didier Flamand](https://cinepixo.com/people/didier-flamand)

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Official site: http://www.wim-wenders.com/movies/movies_spec/wingsofdesire/wingsofdesire.htm
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/wings-of-desire-1987
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