Wings of Desire (4K UHD, #490)

Wings of Desireis one of cinemas loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughtsfears, hopes, dreamsof all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give up his immortality and come back to earth to be with her. Made not long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, this stunning tapestry of sounds and images, shot in black and white and color by the legendary Henri Alekan, forever made the name of director Wim Wenders synonymous with film art.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• 4K restoration, supervised and approved by director Wim Wenders, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Audio commentary featuring Wenders and actor Peter Falk
• The Angels Among Us(2003), a documentary featuring interviews with Wenders, Falk, actors Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander, writer Peter Handke, and composer Jrgen Knieper
• Episode ofCinma cinmasfrom 1987,featuring on-set footage
• Interview with director of photography Henri Alekan
• Deleted scenes and outtakes
• Excerpts from the filmAlekan la lumire(1985) and from Ganz and Sanders 1982 film about actor Curt Bois
• Notes and photos by art directors Heidi and Toni Ldi
• Trailers
• PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Atkinson and writings by Handke and Wenders

  Cover by Michael Boland