Movie · 1987
Wings of Desire
“There are angels on the streets of Berlin.”
Released 23 September 1987 128 min Drama / Fantasy / Romance More from 1987 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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.
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How old were they?
Curt Bois
as Homer
Peter Falk
as The Filmstar
Bruno Ganz
as Damiel
Otto Sander
as Cassiel
Jürgen Heinrich
as In the Old Apartments
Didier Flamand
as In the Library - The Angel
Hans Martin Stier
as The Dying Man
Laurent Petitgand
as The Bandleader
Solveig Dommartin
as Marion
Chick Ortega
as The Drummer
Otto Kuhnle
as The Juggler
Beatrice Manowski
as Young Prostitute
Elmar Wilms
as A Sad Man
Sigurd Rachman
as The Suicide
Bruno Rosaz
as The Clown
Christoph Merg
as The Juggler
Peter Werner
as The Manager
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The numbers
67years between the oldest and youngest billed
86Curt Bois — oldest on the call sheet
19Beatrice Manowski — youngest billed
40average age of the credited cast