There are angels on the streets of Berlin.
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.
- 7.8
- 1987
- Released
- 2h 8m
Bruno Ganz
Damiel
Solveig Dommartin
Marion
Otto Sander
Cassiel
Curt Bois
Homer
Peter Falk
The Filmstar
Hans Martin Stier
The Dying Man
Elmar Wilms
A Sad ManSigurd Rachman
The Suicide
Beatrice Manowski
Young ProstituteBruno Rosaz
The Clown
Chick Ortega
The DrummerOtto Kuhnle
The JugglerPeter Werner
The Manager
Teresa Harder
In the Library - The Angel
Jürgen Heinrich
In the Old Apartments
Annelinde Gerstl
On the Highway
Mick Harvey
Crime and The City Solution / Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Nick Cave
Self - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Blixa Bargeld
Nick Cave and The Bad SeedsPaul Busch
In the CircusKarin Busch
In the CircusIrene Moessinger
In the CircusFranky
In the Circus - Last But Not LeastDaniela Nasimcova
In the Library - The AngelBernard Eisenschitz
In the Library - The Angel
Didier Flamand
In the Library - The AngelRolf Henke
In the Library - The AngelJerry Barrish
In the Bunker - The DirectorJeanette Pollak
In the Bunker - The Costume DesignerChristian Bartels
In the Bunker - The 'Hitler Youth'David Crome
In the Bunker - The Assistant DirectorKäthe Fürstenwerth
In the BunkerWerner Schönrock
In the BunkerBernd Ramien
In the BunkerErika Rabau
In the BunkerSilvia Blagojeva Itscherenska
In the BunkerSultan Meral
In the BunkerOlivier Picot
In the BunkerJochen Gliscinsky
In the BunkerErich Schupke
In the BunkerMargarete Hafner
In the Old ApartmentsOliver Herder
In the Old ApartmentsMargitta Haberland
In the Old ApartmentsWalter Ratayszak
In the Old ApartmentsCharlotte Oberberg
In the Old ApartmentsLubinka Kostic
In the Old ApartmentsGisela Westerboer
On the HighwayAndreas Valentin
On the HighwayWolf-Dirk Vogeley
On the HighwayRuth Rischke
On the HighwaySimon Bonney
Crime and The City SolutionHarry Howard
Crime and The City Solution
Rowland S. Howard
Crime and The City Solution
Thomas Wydler
Nick Cave and The Bad SeedsRoland Wolf
Nick Cave and The Bad SeedsKid Congo Powers
SelfDenis Rodriguez
With the ChildrenDieta von Aster
With the ChildrenGustav Geisler
With the ChildrenPaul Geisler
With the ChildrenLorenz Geisler
With the ChildrenSlađana Kostić
With the ChildrenBenedikt Schumann
With the ChildrenNicolas Roth
With the ChildrenMarcus Stenzel
With the ChildrenBenjamin Ferchow
With the ChildrenMario Meyer
With the ChildrenMark Leuschner
With the ChildrenTibor Dahlenburg
With the ChildrenLia Harder
With the ChildrenMascha Noak
With the ChildrenVera Butzek
With the ChildrenDonald Behrendt
With the ChildrenPatric Kreuzer
Simone Säger
Gerdi Hofmann
Ulrike Schirm
Hans Marquardt
Heimke Karl
Klaus Mausolf
Özyer Hüsinye
Jean-Claude Lezin
Thierry Noir
Henry Luczkow
Lina Otto
Girl in the Club (uncredited)
Johanna Penski
Flower Seller (uncredited)Lajos Kovács
Marion's Coach![Hand-picked by MUBI [Subtitled]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Pt8lgyOkl74/hqdefault.jpg)
Released
de
$2,500,000.00
$3,210,139.00
- #berlin, germany
- #dreams
- #library
- #circus
- #angel
- #berlin wall
- #immortality
- #observer
- #melancholy
- #black and white
- #perception
- #thoughtful
- #mortality
- #dramatic
- #ambiguous
Reviews
**Essay on Sleepiness.** When I decided to see this film, I did it for three reasons: the first is the participation of Bruno Ganz, a German actor that I appreciate and that I started to like after seeing him do excellent work in other films such as “The Fall”; the second is the enormous consideration in which this film has been held by a very high number of distinguished critics and specialist
Bruno Ganz is on top form in this characterful study of desire - physical and spiritual. He is "Daniel" an angel invisible to all but his own kind (and to the innocence of children) who finds himself, with his colleague "Cassiel" (Otto Sander) policing the city of Berlin at the end of the second world war. Needless to say, there are no shortages of claimants on their compassion and they do what th