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1. #001

   It only came about because his secretary was familiar with Wim Wenders's films and a big fan. Since he was already traveling in Germany, she persuaded Gorbachev to set aside a few hours for the cameo.

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2. #002

   Willem Dafoe's character is named "Emit Flesti," which is "Time Itself" spelled backwards.

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3. #003

   Cassiel is the Latin name of an archangel in post-biblical Judeo-Christian religion, known especially as the angel of loneliness and tears, who simply observes events in the cosmos with very little intervention.

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4. #004

   Wim Wenders cut nearly an hour from the film to bring it to its total running time.

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5. #005

   Permission to see the security control room was signed under the name of Wim Wenders's production company, "Road Movie."

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6. #006

   This was Mikhail Gorbachev's first and only acting role.

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7. #007

   The human name Cassiel chooses is Karl Engel. "Engel" is German for "angel."

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8. #008

   The circus company's boat is named "Alekahn," after Henri Alekan, the cinematographer of Wings of Desire (1987), who also plays the captain character.

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9. #009

   After the Cannes Film Festival premiere, director Wim Wenders re-edited the film and shortened it by 19 minutes.

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10. #010

    This was Curt Bois's last acting role, but his scene was deleted from the final film print. It can be seen in the "Bonus materials" section on the BluRay.

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11. #011

    He appears in a cameo as the guardian angel of Phillip Winter, played by Rüdiger Vogler, reuniting several lead actors from Wim Wenders's Alice in the Cities (1974) twenty years later.

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12. #012

    This was Heinz Rühmann's last acting role.

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13. #013

    Fourteen years before this film, Bruno Ganz had worked with Klaus Kinski, Nastassja Kinski's father, on Nosferatu the Vampyre.

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14. #014

    While Raphaela and Emit talk in the subway station, there is a concert poster on the wall advertising The Kinks' "Welcome Back Again Tour 92."

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15. #015

    After Cassiel becomes human and walks underground, a poster of Lou Reed is visible in the background. Reed plays himself in the film.

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16. #016

    Tony's dog is named Khadafy.

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17. #017

    It was shown only in London's West End.

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