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    Faraway, So Close!

    Poster of the movie Faraway, So Close!
    In weiter Ferne, so nah!
    Germany
    1993     Fantasy drama    
    2h 24min
    Original lang: German, French, English
    PG-13
    Guide for parents: offensive language.
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    Guide for parents: Rated PG-13 in the USA, offensive language.
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    Guide for parents: Rated PG-13 in the USA, offensive language.
    ·
    Guide for parents: Rated PG-13 in the USA, offensive language.
    ·
    Guide for parents: Rated PG-13 in the USA, offensive language.
    ·
    Guide for parents: Rated PG-13 in the USA, offensive language.
    ·
    Guide for parents: Rated PG-13 in the USA, offensive language.
    ·
    Guide for parents: Rated PG-13 in the USA, offensive language.

    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.

    Directed byWim Wenders
    Written byWim Wenders, Ulrich Zieger

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    Starring

    Otto Sander
    Peter Falk
    Nastassja Kinski
    Bruno Ganz
    Willem Dafoe
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