Faraway, So Close! (1993)
- Starring:
- Otto Sander, Peter Falk, (more)
- Director(s):
- Wim Wenders
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG13
- Category:
- Foreign, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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Wim Wenders revisits his masterpiece Der Himmel Uber Berlin in this film which picks up several years after the original left off. Cassiel (Otto Sander) is an angel who watches over the lives of the people of recently reunified Berlin with Raphaella (Nastassja Kinski). Damiel (Bruno Ganz), Cassiel's former partner who opted to return to the land of the living in the first film, now lives happily as a pizza chef with the woman he loved and married, circus performer Marion (Solveig Dommartin). While angels are forbidden to directly intervene in the lives of humans, Cassiel impulsively breaks this rule when a little girl falls from the balcony of an apartment block, and he swoops down to catch her. Suddenly made flesh and blood, Cassiel has earned the enmity of Emit Flesti (Willem Dafoe), a sort of overseer of the angels on the physical plane. Emit makes it his business to make things difficult for Cassiel now that he's living among the humans, and after a period of alcoholism and imprisonment, Cassiel finds himself working for gangster Tony Baker (Horst Buchholz), who distributes weapons and pornography on the black market. However, Cassiel has a change of heart and decides to destroy Tony's stockpile in a bid to make the world a better place. Peter Falk, who played himself in Der Himmel Uber Berlin, makes a return appearance when a gallery shows the sketches that he was making in the first film; rock singer Lou Reed and former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev also appear as themselves. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 146 mins
Complete Cast:
- Otto Sander - Cassiel
- Nastassja Kinski - Raphaela
- Bruno Ganz - Damiel
- Rüdiger Vogler - Phillip Winter
- Willem Dafoe - Emit Flesti
- Horst Buchholz - Tony Baker
- Hildegarde Knef - Herself
- Lajos Kovács - Lali
- Monika Hansen - Hanna/Gertrud Becker
- Nadja Engel - Woman doing box on the ear
- Gerd Wameling - Security guard
- Roberto Benigni
- Günter Meisner - Forger
- Peter Falk - Himself
- Heinz Rühmann - Chauffeur Konrad
- Solveig Dommartin - Marion
- Lou Reed - Himself
- Mikhail Gorbachev - Himself
- Alexander Hauff - Taxi driver
- Henri Alékan - Captain
- Udo Samel - Security guard
- Ronald Nitschke - Patzke
- Marijam Agischewa - Kirsten
- Susanne Jansen - Woman in galery
- Hanns Zischler - Dr. Becker
- Yella Rottländer - Winter's angel
- Director(s):
- Wim Wenders
- Writer(s):
- Ulrich Zieger, Wim Wenders, Richard Reitinger
- Producer(s):
- Wim Wenders, Ulrich Felsberg
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG13(Violence, Questionable for Children)
- Categories:
- Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Foreign
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- 1993 - Faraway, So Close! - Cannes Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize
