Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 147 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany
Why tonight?
- In German — subtitles on.
The story
A group of angels look longingly upon the life of humans. Berlin now is a very different place: unified in name but overrun with crime, corruption, and—in what turns out to be a key theme here—Americans.
- rescue
- berlin
- germany
- angel
- urban life
- friends
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Solveig Dommartin — Marion
- Heinz Rühmann — Konrad
- Rüdiger Vogler — Phillip Winter
- Willem Dafoe — Emit Flesti
- Horst Buchholz — Tony Baker
- Martin Olbertz — The Dying Man
- Monika Hansen — Hanna / Gertrud Becker
- Lou Reed — Lou Reed
- Hanns Zischler — Dr. Becker
- Günter Meisner — Forger
- Ronald Nitschke — Patzke
- Directed
- Wim Wenders
- Written
- Wim Wenders, Richard Reitinger, Ulrich Zieger
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 184 ratings
- Studio
- Tobis, Road Movies
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1987Wings of Desire
Where it starts.
Faraway, So Close!
1993 · You’re here
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
