Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany, France
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In German — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- berlin
- germany
- dreams
- library
- circus
- angel
- berlin wall
- immortality
- observer
- melancholy
- black and white
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- 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
- Otto Kuhnle — The Juggler
- Christoph Merg — The Juggler
- Peter Werner — The Manager
- Directed
- Wim Wenders
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 1,531 ratings
- Studio
- Road Movies, Argos films, WDR, Wim Wenders Stiftung
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1987 · You’re hereWings of Desire
Where it starts.
Faraway, So Close!
1993
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.
