Wings of Desire - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray Disc)
Wings of Desire (Der Himmel uber Berlin) 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, and 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 to 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.
Special Features:
New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Wim Wenders (with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
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 J?rgen Knieper
Excerpt from 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 (about the actor who plays Homer in Wings of Desire)
Notes and photos by production designer Heidi Ludi and art director Toni Ludi
Trailers
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Atkinson and writings by Wenders and Handke
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