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Overview

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Director:
Wim Wenders
Writers:
Richard Reitinger (writer)
Wim Wenders (writer)
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Contact:
View company contact information for Faraway, So Close! on IMDbPro.
Release Date:
21 December 1993 (USA) more
Plot:
A sequel to Wender's Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of desire), it again follows a group of angels in... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations more
User Comments:
Big Cinema At It's Best! more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Otto Sander ... Cassiel
Bruno Ganz ... Damiel

Nastassja Kinski ... Raphaela
Martin Olbertz ... Dying man
Aline Krajewski ... Raissa
Monika Hansen ... Hanna / Gertrud Becker

Peter Falk ... Himself
Rüdiger Vogler ... Phillip Winter
Heinz Rühmann ... Chauffeur Konrad
Mikhail Gorbachev ... Himself
Tilmann Vierzig ... Young Konrad
Hanns Zischler ... Dr. Becker
Antonia Westphal ... Young Hanna
Ingo Schmitz ... Anton Becker
Günter Meisner ... Forger
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Faraway, So Close! (USA)
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Runtime:
144 min | USA:140 min
Country:
Germany
Language:
German | French | English
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Company:
Bioskop Film more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
When Cassiel walks through the underground after becoming a human, there's a poster of Lou Reed in the background. Lou Reed plays himself in the movie. more
Goofs:
Continuity: After Cassiel meets Anton Becker and returns to Angelo's pizzeria, he meets Emit Flesti and Damiel puts his flour stained hands on Flesti's shoulder, leaving a white mark on the black suit. The next time we see Flesti, moments later, there is no white mark. more
Quotes:
Emit Flesti: Have you heard the prophecy? "In the Year of Hate, when all that is foreign is despised, dark riders will enter the harbor, seize the ship and everyone on it and sail them straight into hell"
Cassiel: I know all prophecy, but not this one. You made it up.
Emit Flesti: What's the difference? It just happened.
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Movie Connections:
References Börn náttúrunnar (1991) more
Soundtrack:
Berlin more

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10 out of 10 people found the following comment useful:-
Big Cinema At It's Best!, 22 December 1999
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Author: gerald.paetsch from Dortmund, Germany

I've seen this film days ago, and I am still touched by it very deeply - I'm still thinking about it, its implications, the actors (especially Otto Sander), and the warmth and tenderness it conveys. Intellectual cinema highly recommended to everyone who wants to be moved and touched on a very deep level. This is THE film!

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