Editing Wings of Desire (section)

===Casting===
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! {{anchor|Cast}}Actor{{sfn|Kolker|Beicken|1993|p=181}}
! Role <!-- or "Character" -->
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| {{sortname|Bruno|Ganz}}
| Damiel
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| {{sortname|Solveig|Dommartin}}
| Marion
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| {{sortname|Otto|Sander}}
| Cassiel
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| {{sortname|Curt|Bois}}
| Homer, the aged poet
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| {{sortname|Peter|Falk}}
| himself (credited as "Der Filmstar")<ref name="Filmlexikon"/>
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| [[Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds]]
| themselves{{sfn|Billingham|2013|p=13}} 
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| [[Crime & the City Solution]]
| themselves{{sfn|Fitzpatrick|Roland|2006|p=48}}
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Wenders believed it would be important for the actors playing the two main angel characters to be familiar and friendly with each other. Ganz and Sander had performed in some of the same stage productions for 20 years.<ref name="KennyWenders"/> Sander and Ganz also recommended [[Curt Bois]] to Wenders and asked Bois to perform.<ref name="Sander">{{cite AV media |last1=Kenny |first1=J.M. |last2=Wenders |first2=Wim |last3=Sander |first3=Otto |date=2009 |title=The Angels Among Us |medium=Blu-ray |publisher=[[The Criterion Collection]]}}</ref> Bois' performance as Homer marked his final feature film in an 80-year career, beginning as a child actor.{{sfn|Huda|2004|p=249}}

[[Peter Falk]]'s role was not planned until photography had already begun, with Wenders planning an artist or political official to have an analogous role until assistant [[Claire Denis]] suggested the ''[[Columbo]]'' star would be familiar to everyone.<ref name="Feaster"/> Falk described the part as "the craziest thing that I've ever been offered", but quickly agreed.<ref name="KennyWenders"/> He was accustomed to the improvisation the newly created role required, and when Wenders and Falk met, they conceived ideas of the character sketching and searching for a hat.<ref name="Feaster"/> [[Nick Cave]] and his band were based in West Berlin, with Wenders calling him "a real Berlin hero" and deciding "It was inconceivable for me to make a film in Berlin without showing one of his concerts".{{sfn|Danks|2016|pp=113-114}}