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Wings of Desire

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A guide through the many aspects of Wenders's groundbreaking film, employing archival research to bring out new insights into its making and its meanings.



Filmed in 1986/87 in still-divided Berlin, Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire is both a utopian fairy tale and a fascinating time capsule of that late Cold War moment. Together with legendary French cinematographer Henri Alekan(who had worked on Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête of 1946, among many other films) and Austrian author Peter Handke...