Wings of Desire (15)

In Wings of Desire, director Wim Wender's most metaphysical work, a guardian angel desires nothing more than to be human. Every day, Damiel (Bruno Ganz) listens to the thoughts of mortals who play their lives out on the streets of West Berlin. He finds himself entranced by a trapeze artist (Solveig Dommartin) whose eloquent expression of her doubts and fears makes him yearn for a life where he can feel happiness and love. Winner of the Best Director prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, Wings of Desire is both a tribute to Germany's divided capital and a vital and utterly captivating rumination on human existence itself.

'Few films are so rich, so intriguing, or so ambitious.' Time Out.

West Germany/France 1987 128 mins Dir: Wim Wenders (subtitled)