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DER HIMMEL UBER BERLIN (1987)

AKAs:
Wings of Desire (UK) (USA)
The Sky Above Berlin (USA) (literal English title)

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Criterion Collection # 490

DVD RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 3, 2009

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Director: Wim Wenders

Description:
Wings of Desire 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, 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 and 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.


READ:
Waiting in the Wings
Oct 14, 2009
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Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 7.63 + 7.64 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 127 minutes

Type: Color | Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 | Anamorphic

Sound (main feature): German DD5.1

Subtitles: optional English



DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET:

# New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Wim Wenders.
# 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 Jurgen Knieper.
# 'Wim Wenders Berlin Jan. 87,' an episode of the French television program Cinema cinemas, including on-set footage.
# Interview with director of photography Henri Alekan.
# Deleted scenes and outtakes.
# Excerpts from the films Alekan la lumiere (1985) and Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois (1982).
# Notes and photos by art directors Heidi Ludi and Toni Ludi.
# Trailers.
# New and improved English subtitle translation.


Studio: Criterion

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