One of cinema’s loveliest city symphonies. Damiel is an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears, hopes, dreams—of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give up his immortality and come back to earth to be with her. Made not long before the fall of the Berlin wall, this stunning tapestry of sounds and images is movie poetry. And it forever made the name Wim Wenders synonymous with film art. –The Criterion Collection