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I must say that the history of this shot – and not only of this shot but of the fact that the angels have or don’t have wings – was a real problem from the earliest preparations for the film in Berlin, where every Sunday evening, I brought Wenders little sketches I had made while visiting museums and where I said to him: “Here is how such-and-such a master painted an angel with wings, like that, while some other 17th or 18th Century master envisioned the wings this way.“ And Wim listened to me very attentively because he hadn’t yet made up his mind at that point…The days went by. Then all of a sudden, Wim said: “All right, we’re not going to have our angels walk around in Berlin with their wings. The wings will disappear right away.” I agreed with the decision and suggested to Wim that we use a trick effect – one that is actually rather complex – where in a studio, the angels who then were going to wear a large gray overcoat – likely, modern, contemporary – would have wings for a few seconds and then the wings would disappear as if by magic. The trick effect was difficult because it involved a system of mirrors placed before the camera in such a way that the angel-actor and his double, dressed the same way and standing in another part of the studio, could each be reflected in the mirror . The double wore wings but not the angel-actor. And by means of lighting, the wings were either illuminated or disappeared in the darkness. That is the basic idea of the technique. I had used it forty years earlier in La Belle et la Bête [Beauty and the Beast] and in a number of other films as well, and knew how to make it work. But this time we could use video monitors, so the actor and his double could see themselves. That made it easier to superimpose the two bodies and the wings. But still it took a whole day to get it right. And from that whole day of shooting, Wim kept only a few images of the angel perched at the top of the cathedral. And once the wings disappeared, the film could continue with the angels looking more like humans walking around in the streets of Berlin than like real angels – if there is such a thing as real angels.