FILM 1545: WINGS OF DESIRE
TRIVIA: In the closing titles it
says: "Dedicated to all the former angels, but especially to Yasujiro,
François and Andrej." That refers to Yasujiro Ozu, François Truffaut and
Andrej Tarkovsky.
All of the black & white
sequences were shot through a one-of-a-kind filter made from a stocking that
belonged to cinematographer Henri Alekan's
grandmother.
Filming the actual Berlin Wall was
prohibited, so a replica of the wall twice had to be built close to the
original. The first fake wall warped in the rain because the contractor cheated
the producers and built it from wood.
This movie was the basis for the
American City of Angels (1998)
movie with Meg Ryan and Nicolas Cage.
The photograph on the cover of the
book that the old man opens in the library is "Young farmers" taken
by August Sander.
