Word: damiel
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...angels seemingly float through Berlin streets, focusing for a few moments on a slew of ordinary people and their emotions: despairing, weary, optimistic and youthful, recording each moment for some heavenly record. However, the angels’ quiet, subdued mission is interrupted when one of the angels, Damiel, falls in love with a trapeze artist Marion. Shot by renowned cinematographer Henri Alekan, Wenders’s film captures the transcendent and tenuous moments of being alive with startling beauty. It won him a Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival and was the inspiration for the Hollywood remake City...
...Bring back the old stars and add a big new one. Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander are back as Damiel and Cassiel, the angels come to Earth. Peter Falk returns as an ex-angel, and Solveig Dommartin as the trapeze artist who'll meet any heavenly body halfway. But here's a casting coup: Mikhail Gorbachev as himself. He sits at a desk, pondering the meaning of life and the purpose of the universe. "I'm sure that a secure world can't be built on blood, only on harmony," opines the former Soviet leader, now available for smaller roles...
...elaborate on the original film's story; instead, remake it. Rocky < always fought a guy; Indiana Jones saved yet another buried treasure; the Lethal Weapon lads kept blowing stuff up. Here Cassiel, the second angel, follows Damiel's lead and becomes human, a brand-new Candide. But Wenders actually has a new idea, courtesy of recent history. In Wings of Desire, two angels hovered over divided Berlin, invisibly consoling its citizens. In the sequel, written by Wenders, Ulrich Zieger and Richard Reitinger, angels patrol a Berlin that is politically united but even more fractious -- a city of gangsters...
...together, it's fantastic!" In a traveling circus, a pretty trapeze artist (Solveig Dommartin) chafes at the gaudy "chicken wings" she must wear in her act. As she stares in her mirror and considers the pleasures men take in looking at her, the invisible Damiel caresses her shoulder...
...these creatures are angels, too, Damiel decides, but most important they are human. They can bleed and see colors. They can feel warmth and pain. Damiel wants to enter their world, "if only to hold an apple in my hand." He wants to be able to feel now instead of just observing forever. He wants to say "Ah!" instead of "Amen." He wants to create his own story in his own voice. So he takes the plunge, toward his airborne woman. An angel must fall to earth to fall in love...