Wings of Desire (1987), Jul 23, 2025 7:00PM

Browning Cinema

Summer Film School
Directed by Wim Wenders
With Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk
Rated PG-13, 128 minutes, DCP
In English and German, French, Turkish, Hebrew, Spanish, and Japanese with English subtitles

Wings of Desire remains one of cinema’s most loved 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.

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