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* DefectorFromParadise: An angel falls in love with a human and chooses to become human himself in order to be with her, leaving Heaven.
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A 1987 film by Wim Wenders originally called ''Der Himmel über Berlin'' (lit: 'The Heavens Above Berlin').
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A 1987 film by Wim Wenders Creator/WimWenders originally called ''Der Himmel über Berlin'' (lit: 'The Heavens Above Berlin').
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* BilingualBonus: In the English release, the dialogue of a young Spanish girl, a Japanese woman and a Pakistani woman are left untranslated.
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome : The film is shot that way because the angels don't see colours [[spoiler:until one of them becomes human]].
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome : The film is shot that way because the angels [[OurAngelsAreDifferent don't see colours colours]] [[spoiler:until one of them becomes human]].
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* RealityHasNoSubtitles: In the English release, the dialogue of a young Spanish girl, a Japanese woman and a Pakistani woman are left untranslated.
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*EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: A trapezist? Sounds sexy. A French trapezist? Sounds goddess.
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*LadyInRed: Marion when eventually meets [[spoiler: Damiel as a human]] wears a lavish red dress.
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*SceneryGorn: The zone near the BerlinWall are nothing buy gloomy.
*SceneryPorn: Indeed Berlin is the true protagonist.
*SceneryPorn: Indeed Berlin is the true protagonist.
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* UsefulNotes/BerlinWall
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* UsefulNotes/ColdWar: The film is set shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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* MeaningfulName: The old man, who describes himself as a storyteller, is identified in the end credits as "Homer".
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* MeaningfulName: The old man, man who describes himself as a storyteller, storyteller (Curt Bois) is identified in the end credits as "Homer".
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The film depicts two angels wandering in {{cold war}} era {{Berlin}} and listening to the thoughts of humans, among them an old man looking for the now-destroyed Potsdamer Platz and recalling the good times he used to have there; Peter Falk AsHimself; and a lonely French trapezist, whom one of the angels falls in love with.
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The film depicts two angels wandering in {{cold war}} UsefulNotes/ColdWar era {{Berlin}} UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}} and listening to the thoughts of humans, among them an old man looking for the now-destroyed Potsdamer Platz and recalling the good times he used to have there; Peter Falk AsHimself; and a lonely French trapezist, whom one of the angels falls in love with.
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* LadyInRed: Marion at the bar.
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* AsHimself: Peter Falk plays more or less himself (to the point where children call him "Series/{{Columbo}}"), an American actor filming a movie in Berlin. [[spoiler: He's also actually a former angel himself]].
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* LadyInRed: Marion at the bar
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* LadyInRed: Marion at the bar bar.
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* BigNo: Cassiel's reaction to the suicide is an anguished "Nein!"
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* GuardianAngel: Downplayed. The angels provide comfort but can't or won't directly intervene in human affairs (as with the suicide.)
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* GuardianAngel: Downplayed. The angels provide comfort but can't or won't directly intervene in human affairs (as with the suicide.)suicide).
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* PinocchioSyndrome: Both angels at the beginning discuss how they'd like to be human for a change; [[spoiler: one of them spoiler actually has his wish come true.]]
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* PinocchioSyndrome: Both angels at the beginning discuss how they'd like to be human for a change; [[spoiler: one of them spoiler actually has his wish come true.]]
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* ColdWar: The film is set shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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* PinocchioSyndrome: Both angels at the beginning discuss how they'd like to be human for a change; one of them [[spoiler actually has this wish come true.]]
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* PinocchioSyndrome: Both angels at the beginning discuss how they'd like to be human for a change; [[spoiler: one of them [[spoiler spoiler actually has this his wish come true.]]
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* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Damiel and Cassiel only sometimes have wings and otherwise look like two ordinary middle age men. Also, their powers are limited and both (especially Damiel) are tired of being angels rather than human.
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* PinocchioSyndrome: Both angels at the beginning discuss how they'd like to be human for a change; one of them [[spoiler actually has this wish come true.]]
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* KnifeThrowingAct: At the children's circus.
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* MindReading: The angels can read the thoughts of the humans they encounter.
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* ForeignRemake: Remade as CityOfAngels''Film/CityOfAngels''
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A {{sequel}}, ''Faraway So Close'', was made in 1993. The first film received a ''very'' loose American remake, ''Film/CityOfAngels'', in 1999.
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A 1987 film by Wim Wenders originally called ''Der Himmel über Berlin'' (lit: 'The Heavens Above Berlin').
The film depicts two angels wandering in {{cold war}} era {{Berlin}} and listening to the thoughts of humans, among them an old man looking for the now-destroyed Potsdamer Platz and recalling the good times he used to have there; Peter Falk AsHimself; and a lonely French trapezist, whom one of the angels falls in love with.
A {{sequel}}, ''Faraway So Close'', was made in 1993. The first film received a ''very'' loose American remake, ''Film/CityOfAngels'', in 1999.
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!!''Der Himmel über Berlin'' contains examples of :
* AsHimself: Peter Falk plays more or less himself (to the point where children call him "Series/{{Columbo}}"), an American actor filming a movie in Berlin. [[spoiler: He's also actually a former angel himself]].
* ArcWords: The [[http://www.wim-wenders.com/movies/movies_spec/wingsofdesire/wod-song-of-childhood-german.htm "Lied vom Kindsein"]], with its repetitive structure, appears throughout the movie.
-->Als das Kind, Kind war...
* DeliberatelyMonochrome : The film is shot that way because the angels don't see colours [[spoiler:until one of them becomes human]].
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The film depicts two angels wandering in {{cold war}} era {{Berlin}} and listening to the thoughts of humans, among them an old man looking for the now-destroyed Potsdamer Platz and recalling the good times he used to have there; Peter Falk AsHimself; and a lonely French trapezist, whom one of the angels falls in love with.
A {{sequel}}, ''Faraway So Close'', was made in 1993. The first film received a ''very'' loose American remake, ''Film/CityOfAngels'', in 1999.
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!!''Der Himmel über Berlin'' contains examples of :
* AsHimself: Peter Falk plays more or less himself (to the point where children call him "Series/{{Columbo}}"), an American actor filming a movie in Berlin. [[spoiler: He's also actually a former angel himself]].
* ArcWords: The [[http://www.wim-wenders.com/movies/movies_spec/wingsofdesire/wod-song-of-childhood-german.htm "Lied vom Kindsein"]], with its repetitive structure, appears throughout the movie.
-->Als das Kind, Kind war...
* DeliberatelyMonochrome : The film is shot that way because the angels don't see colours [[spoiler:until one of them becomes human]].
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