Wings of Desire

1987 · 128 MIN · IMDB 7.9 · 80,345 VOTES · DIR. Wim Wenders

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Overview

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.

Dialogue Timeline — 678 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:21 When the child was a child, it walked with its arms swinging.
00:06:42 My father... My father was my father.
00:10:39 Well?
00:12:59 to be able to say: "Now, now and now."
00:14:59 Let things happen. Keep serious.
00:22:31 I'm still there. If I want it, if I only want it.
00:25:34 We're broke.
00:27:49 Then I went abroad.
00:31:23 How should I live? Maybe that's not the question.
00:35:48 The morning light. The eyes of the child.
00:38:49 and that its story is hardly told?
00:41:43 who, abandoned by his mortal audience...
00:44:37 by he who arrives at each small state with the password.
00:51:23 I'd like to see it. Maybe he'll give it to me.
00:58:07 But the story of the grass, the sun, the leaps and the shouts...
01:01:06 Only the Roman roads still lead somewhere...
01:03:04 Strange people, they're shouting. I don't care.
01:19:14 Why am I here, and why not there?
01:27:09 Is that red? - Yes.
01:30:43 When the child was a child, it threw a stick like a lance into a tree.
01:39:30 She isn't gone, Cassiel. I know it.
01:50:51 Was I the only one who wasn't serious?
01:53:23 Only with him could I be lonely...
20:40:08 In a week I could have 500.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed678
Dialogue density5.3 lines / min
First line00:00:21
Final line20:40:08

Production Record

DirectorWim Wenders
LanguageGerman
Budget$2,500,000
Revenue$3,210,139
IMDb votes80,345