Where was Wings of Desire filmed?

1987 film by Wim Wenders

Wings of Desire (1987) was filmed in Siegessäule, Berlin State Library, Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof and Hotel Esplanade, 4 places named in its Wikipedia article's Filming section, in Germany. Wikidata itself records the shoot only as West Berlin. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a statement, and every claim on this page says which it is.

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Places per Wikipedia's Filming section

Wikipedia’s Filming section names 4 places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.

Places whose own article says it was shot there

1 place whose own Wikipedia article names this film as something shot there, where Wikidata records nothing and this film’s own article does not say so either. The weakest evidence on this atlas: no pin on the map, and nothing in the downloads. Each sentence is quoted whole and linked to the article it came from, so it can be judged rather than taken on trust.

• Potsdamer Platz Germany

  “Some scenes of the 1987 Wim Wenders movie Der Himmel über Berlin (English title: Wings of Desire) were filmed on the old, almost entirely void Potsdamer Platz before the Berlin Wall fell.” Wikipedia

Recorded only at country level

Wikidata also records this film as shot in West Berlin, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.

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