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Where was Wings of Desire filmed?

1987 film, directed by Wim Wenders.

  • West Berlin

The story is set in Berlin, so the filming stayed close to the setting.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
Berlin
Filmed in
West Berlin

About Wings of Desire

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Released
1987
Director
Wim Wenders
Cast
Bruno GanzSolveig DommartinOtto SanderCurt BoisPeter FalkHans-Martin StierAnnelinde GerstlBeatrice ManowskiCrime & the City SolutionDidier Flamand
Genre
FantasyDrama
Awards
Film Independent Spirit Awards; Kurd Lasswitz Award for Best Foreign Work; European Film Award for Best Director; European Film Award for Best Supporting Actor

The story

In a Berlin divided by the Berlin Wall, two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, watch the city, unseen and unheard by its human inhabitants.

Their raison d'être is, as Cassiel says, to "assemble, testify, preserve" reality.

Among the Berliners they encounter in their wanderings is an old man named Homer, who dreams of an "epic of peace".

Famous lines from Wings of Desire

Could you name the film from one of these? Famous lines turn up in the daily game.

  • Wait! I want to know everything.Damiel
  • You need to figure that out for yourself. That's the fun of it.Peter Falk
  • Or at last to feel how it is to take off shoes under a table and wriggle your toes barefoot, like that.Damiel
  • Yeah, to be able, once in a while, to enthuse for evil. To draw all the demons of the earth from passers-by and to chase them out into the world. To be a savage.Cassiel
  • As I came up the mountain, out of the misty valley into the sun. The fire on the cattle range, the potatoes in the ashes, the boathouse floating in the lake. The Southern Cross.Damiel

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