Wings of Desire

A guide through the many aspects of Wenders's groundbreaking film, employing archival research to bring out new...
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Author: Christian Rogowski
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Wings of Desire by Rogowski, Christian

Wings of Desire

€32,34

Wings of Desire

€32,34
Author: Christian Rogowski
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A guide through the many aspects of Wenders's groundbreaking film, employing archival research to bring out new insights into its making and its meanings.


Filmed in 1986/87 in still-divided Berlin, Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire is both a utopian fairy tale and a fascinating time capsule of that late Cold War moment. Together with legendary French cinematographer Henri Alekan(who had worked on Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête of 1946, among many other films) and Austrian author Peter Handke (with whom he had collaborated before), Wenders created a multilayered filmic poem of dazzling complexity: the skies over Berlin are populated with angels bearing witness to its inhabitants' everyday concerns. One falls in love with a beautiful young woman, a trapeze artist in a traveling circus, and decides to forfeit his immortality. Wenders's groundbreaking film has been hailed as a paean to love, a rumination on the continued presence in Berlin of the troubled German history, as well as an homage to the life-affirming power of the cinematic imagination.Christian Rogowski guides the reader through the film's many aspects, using archival research to bring out new insights into its making and its meanings.

Christian Rogowski is G. Armour Craig Professor in Language andLiterature in the Department of German at Amherst College.

Author: Christian Rogowski
Publisher: Camden House (NY)
Published: 09/10/2019
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.20w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781640140370

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