Country:Germany

Director:Wim Wenders

Program:Parralel Pathways

Summary:

Wim Wenders created his most popular film as a love letter to the cinema as much as a response to the spectre of German Romanticism. Two angels are wandering in a grave Berlin which they perceive in black and white. Invisible to humans, they nevertheless give their help to all the lonely and depressed souls they meet. After many centuries, one of the angels becomes unhappy with his immortal state and wishes to become human in order to experience the joys of everyday life. He meets a circus acrobat and finds in her the fufillment of all his mortal desires. He also discovers that he is not alone in making this cross over, and that a purely spiritual experience is not enough to satisfy anyone.