“There are angels on the streets of Berlin.”
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.
Wim Wenders
Anatole Dauman
Wim Wenders
Peter Handke
Richard Reitinger
Wim Wenders
Henri Alekan
Jürgen Knieper
Bruno Ganz
Damiel
Solveig Dommartin
Marion
Otto Sander
Cassiel
Curt Bois
Homer
Peter Falk
The Filmstar
Hans Martin Stier
The Dying Man
Elmar Wilms
A Sad Man
Sigurd Rachman
The Suicide
Beatrice Manowski
Young Prostitute
Bruno Rosaz
The Clown
Laurent Petitgand
The Bandleader
Chick Ortega
The Drummer
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CinemaSerf
Bruno Ganz is on top form in this characterful study of desire - physical and spiritual. He is "Daniel" an angel invisible to all but his own kind (and to the innocence of children) who finds himself, with his colleague "Cassiel" (Otto Sander) policing the city of Berlin at the end of the second wor...
Filipe Manuel Neto
**Essay on Sleepiness.** When I decided to see this film, I did it for three reasons: the first is the participation of Bruno Ganz, a German actor that I appreciate and that I started to like after seeing him do excellent work in other films such as “The Fall”; the second is the enormous consider...
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