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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 4818
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Hebrew (Original Language), Turkish (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: VHS Tape
EAN: 5020301010039
ASIN: B00004CKJ8
Theatrical Release Date: September 23, 1987
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: very good condition
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A Hymn To Berlin December 23, 2007
Franz Bieberkopf (Liverpool,GB)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Wim Wenders' film is fantastic,partially because of the acting,photography,and script,but also because of a totally unforseeable event-the Berlin Wall fell two years after the film was made,and so this is an ode to an era which,though historically recent,is now in an unreachable past.I have watched this with my 17 year old neice,who thought the film was great,but,for her,it may as well have been set during the late Byzantine Empire. br /The story is easy to summarise.There are angels watching over each one of us(at least in late 1980s West Berlin).They share our joys and sorrows,and try to protect us from ourselves.One(played by Bruno Ganz) is fascinated by us humans to the extent that he falls in love with a trapeze artist,decides to leave infinity and become human. br /Before and after his transition to humanity,the angel meets another of his ilk(played by Peter Falk)who decided to become human some time earlier.The angel then meets the trapeze artist-can't tell you any more,I'd ruin the end. br /Fans of Nick Cave are in for a treat,he performs most of the soundtrack. br /For me,the most impressive aspect of the film is Wenders' use of Berlin,to the extent that the city almost becomes a character in the film in it's own right.The angels meeting on top of the Victory Monument,overseeing us in the University library,comforting us as we ride in ambulances or on the U-Bahn,and,in an unforgettable scene,trying and failing to stop a person leaping from a skyscraper-all of this integrates Berlin's urban landscape so well. br /If you've never been to Berlin and are thinkling of going,watch this first.If you like brilliant phtography and a strange,dream-like story with great acting,again watch this. br /NB-There was a dreadful Hollywood remake of "Wings Of Desire",called "City Of Angels".It's truly woeful-what do you expect of any film with Meg Ryan in it?-so avoid like the plague.
 A slower City of Angels November 14, 2005
Francisco (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
13 out of 47 found this review helpful
This film was obviously the main inspiration for the film City of Angels. Only the later movie was a lot more tightly written and faster paced.pThe main story is that there is an angel who falls for a trapeze artist and decides to become mortal. He is sometimes accompanied on his journey around Berlin by another angel. As angels can hear peoples#x27; thoughts, they spend most of the time recording the way the world is for those above. The angels can only see in black and white so we only see things in colour when the film looks at things from a mortal#x27;s point of view.pThere is a major subplot in that Peter Falk, playing himself, is in Berlin to shoot a movie set in the Second World War. The angels do spend a fair amount of time on that set, as well as our hero spending a lot of time at the circus. Falk becomes a more important plot device in the last quarter of the film.pIt is slow. Events don#x27;t really start moving until the last third of the film -- most of the film is just the two angels listening in. There is enough action to keep you interested though. I didn#x27;t think much of Marion#x27;s monologue at the end.pIn short, it#x27;s a film with an interesting plot but the story is only a backdrop to which is both thoughtful and arty. If you#x27;re in the right mood you#x27;ll appreciate it but it#x27;s definitely not to everybody#x27;s taste.
Serene, truthful, funny, lyrical, beautiful, haunting October 26, 2005
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
This film is just so lovely - it has haunted me all day (despite a stressful and distracting day at work) and is a film never to be forgotten. I had to order it to keep because I know it is a film I will want to watch at regular intervas for the rest of my like. brThe library scenes are particularly haunting and really do convey a strong impression of serenity. brThe notes in the bonus material are well worth watching too I watched them because I just wanted more I didn't want to leave this film. It is an average length film but I wish it was an hour longer - like one of those rare books that you really never want to finishbrRent it!!! Buy it!!!
The most beautiful and poetic film of all times December 9, 2004
Ntshk
41 out of 42 found this review helpful
I love this film and I love it because of so many things. I saw it for the first time when I was a teenager in mid 90s and I was so impressed... I was roaming the streets of Almaty (my home town in Kazakhstan) with my best friend and I asked her: "Do you think angels are walking together with us and collecting the spiritual signs of our existence?' Of course, it was a joke, by what a romantic joke... A longing for something magical that can happen to a mortal...pWhen you first watch the film, you wonder why Wim Wenders has picked two aging men in long black coats to be angels. That's not how you imagined an angel, after all. However, the further you watch the film, the more you realise that their angelic nature is in the way they look at everything, in their increadible eyes. pWhen I think about this film I think about all the good that can happen to an ordinary human being. This film highlights the best in all of us and makes us immortal for a short while... And I believe this feeling is worth it.pNatalia
Superb Film, Good Extras August 3, 2004
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
Others have mentioned the film, it is my all time favourite and the commentary is an execllent addition.pThe extras are low in quantity but high in quality - the custard pie scene had me both astonished and then in stitches when I watched it again.pAnyone who buys DVD's will not be disappointed here, overall the film itself guarantees this DVD the top mark.
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