gavin6942 A group of angels in the German capital look longingly upon the life of humans.I think generally people consider "Wings of Desire" to be the better film between that one and this. And there is good reason for that. One, it was first, so it has a bit of an edge on originality. And two, it was remade into "City of Angels", so it got some attention from Hollywood. The average American film-goer probably has no idea there was a German version 9or a sequel).But I think this film has its own charm. Peter Falk is amusing, and you wonder if he really draws and why he would be in Berlin. Willem Dafoe (who does not play himself) was still relatively unknown at this point (though this is post-Last Temptation) and it is nice to see him in a European film. To this day (2016), he never shies away from controversial films, even if he is kind of a jerk in real life.

ferman89 i don't get it! but it's been 2 week that the characters from the touching films i've been watching recently all have played in a particular movie called Your Friends & Neighbors (1998) which i had visited it's info on IMDb few years ago when i was studying in Gorgan! that time i was wondering if there was any film that had a soundtrack from Metallica! this film had it. the song: welcome home! i got the idea from the movie mission impossible! where the ending music is I Disappear from metallica!Artists: Jason Patric from Sleepers (1996) Nastassja Kinski from wim wender's Faraway, So Close! (1993) Ben Stiller from Meet the Parents (2000)this one was not quite touching but not bad! i like most of the reviews especially the one that is titlled To Film a Poem

Alexandar Faraway, so close (1993)In this lesser follow up to great classic Wings of Desire (Der Himmel uber Berlin) the second Angel, Cassiel (Otto Sander) decides to sacrifice his immortality.Movie is heavily flawed. Overlong for its content, inconclusively mixing various genres and losing central point. Meditation on Time, Life and its true values is much less revealing and Cassiel's path fuzzy, with hard-to-buy elements. His transitions from ''zero point'' down and back are dramatically and emotionally uncovered. Sander is not nearly good in this role as Bruno Ganz was.Unnecessary Williem Dafoe's character adds much to the dispersion of the film and the touches of banality. You'll get a very few clever and ''to think'' observations in 2 and a half hours of mostly uninspiring, less ethereal and much less original ''version of'' its predecessor. Pay attention to Henri Alekan, brilliant cinematographer from Wings of Desire in the role of the Captain of the ship.

cindy_bcr It's difficult to make a sequel as good as the original. If it's done in the same style, it becomes a poor shadow. Here, Wim Wenders has made something different than in "Wings of Desire:" what I consider a comedy of a misfit ex-angel, to counter the desire of an angel to become human in the other film.Near the end of the other movie, we saw one of the angels, Damiel, become human for the love of a beautiful trapeze artist. In this film, we see the other angel, Cassiel, become human by accident as he wanted to help people. As much as he wanted to fit in with our world, the more he tried to do good, the worse trouble actually made of things. He often quotes the Lou Reed song he heard: "Why can't I be good, make something of this life?"There is a cameo appearance of a world leader, when Mikhail Gorbachev (filmed the summer after resigning as Soviet president) ponders the age-old question about the meaning and purpose of life; or two leaders if counting that the guard dog's name is Khadafy. There are jokes about getting lost between East and West, since the Wall no longer was there as a landmark. But there is the serious side at the beginning, of the war and the Nazi past, which is a little hard to follow. I almost forgot about it as I got caught up in the humor of the fallen angel, but even that had the darker side of an evil angel who was leading him astray. Yet the ending tied everything together nicely.Like "Wings of Desire," there are nice transitions between black and white, which is how the angels see the world, and color, for how humans see things. There is also a poem started at the beginning, about humans being everything to the angels, when Cassiel looks down from the statue to "you whom we love." The angels are just the "messengers who bring light to those in darkness." The poem is repeated at the ending, adding that the message is love.The angels lament that humans can only believe what they can see and touch. The Wall fell, the tangible symbol of the division between East and West, yet still one driver whose thoughts we heard couldn't see what the difference was between the two areas; freedom can't be seen or touched. Love, the angels message, can be neither seen nor touched, yet that, and not "blood and steel" (as said the Russian poet and diplomat that Gorbachev quotes), is what is needed for there to be peace.