The Melbourne Cinémathèque & ACMI present
Wings of Desire
When
Wed 1 Apr 2026
An angel (Bruno Ganz) soulfully watching over the stranded citizens of West Berlin is tempted by the pleasures of the flesh when he falls in love with a trapeze artist (Solveig Dommartin). Wenders’ profoundly moving and often magical modern fairytale is an extraordinary essay on the weight of history and memory. Shifting between black-and-white and colour, it evokes both Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life and Powell and Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death.
Now itself a significant artefact of a soon-to-be united Berlin, it features Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Crime & the City Solution, Curt Bois and Peter Falk. Co-written by Peter Handke and shot by Henri Alekan.
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