THE MASTERFUL BERLIN POEM BY THE DIRECTOR OF PARIS, TEXAS
"ONE OF THE MOST MAGICAL FLIGHTS A CINEMA VIEWER CAN EXPERIENCE."
THE WORLD
B erlin, two years before the fall of the Wall. Invisible to human eyes, the angels Damiel and Cassiel wander through the city, collecting the thoughts of the men and women they meet. During his wanderings, Damiel meets Marion, a seductive French trapeze artist who performs in a traveling circus. He then considers leaving his immortality and his purely spiritual existence to love her. Meanwhile, the American actor Peter Falk is passing through Berlin for the filming of a movie…
Best Director Award at the 40th Cannes Film Festival, Wings of Desire is a splendid visual and sound fresco of Berlin in the late 1980s. After several feature films made abroad, filmmaker Wim Wenders returns to his native land and delivers the most beautiful tribute to the capital and its inhabitants. A poetic film with the allure of an expressionist tale, magnified by the sublime photography of Henri Alekan, Wings of Desire is to be discovered in its new 4K restoration supervised and approved by the director, available for the first time in France on Blu-ray™ and in 4K Ultra HD™!
WINGS OF DESIRE by Wim Wenders
(1987 - Colors - 129 min)
New 4K restoration
Original version with French subtitles + French version
Unreleased in 4K UHD
THE FILM IN 4K UHD & BLU-RAY (NEW 4K RESTORATION SUPERVISED AND APPROVED BY WIM WENDERS)
SUPPLEMENTS
. INTERVIEW WITH WIM WENDERS (27 min – HD)
The director details the restoration process of the Wings of Desire which he supervised, and explains how, with his team, they started from the original negatives to arrive at sublime 4K images faithful to the initial work of the director of photography Henri Alekan.
. DELETED SCENES WITH MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT (7 min)
. DELETED SCENES WITH AUDIO COMMENTARY BY WIM WENDERS [RECORDED IN 2003] (32 min)
. HELICOPTER FLIGHT OVER BERLIN (11 min – HD)
To the music of the film, the city seen from the sky and filmed in black and white.
. CINEMA, CINEMAS: WIM WENDERS BERLIN JANUARY 1987 (10 min)
Production: Michel Pamart - © 1987 INA
On the set of Wings of Desire in Berlin, Wim Wenders at work directing a scene with actor Peter Falk and numerous extras .
. INVITATION TO TRAVEL: BERLIN, CAPITAL OF DESIRE BY WIM WENDERS (15 min – HD)
For this ARTE magazine show broadcast in 2018, Wim Wenders returns to the locations where his film was shot and observes the metamorphoses of the German capital since 1987 and the fall of the Wall.
. RESTORATION TRAILER (HD)
International trailer for the version restored and edited by Wim Wenders in 2017.
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BD 100 • MASTER 4K • 2160/23.98p • HEVC ENCODING
Original Version DTS-HD MA 5.1 & 2.0 / French Version DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 • French Subtitles • 1.66 Format respected • B&W and Colors • Film Length: 129 mins
BD 50 • HIGH DEFINITION MASTER • 1080/23.98p • AVC ENCODING
Original Version DTS-HD MA 5.1 & 2.0 / French Version DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 • French Subtitles • 1.66 Format respected • B&W and Colors • Film Length: 129 mins
Released October 17, 2023
