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Overview

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6.9/10   3,013 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Richard Reitinger (writer)
Wim Wenders (writer)
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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
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A Wonderful Cinematic Experience more (26 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Otto Sander ... Cassiel
Bruno Ganz ... Damiel
Mikhail Gorbachev ... Himself (as Michail S. Gorbatschow)

Nastassja Kinski ... Raphaela
Martin Olbertz ... Dying Man
Aline Krajewski ... Raissa
Monika Hansen ... Hanna / Gertrud Becker
Rüdiger Vogler ... Phillip Winter
Heinz Rühmann ... Konrad
Tilmann Vierzig ... Young Konrad
Hanns Zischler ... Dr. Becker
Antonia Westphal ... Young Hanna
Ingo Schmitz ... Anton Becker
Günter Meisner ... Forger
Sascha Wohlatz ... Teenager
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Faraway, So Close! (USA)
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Runtime:
144 min | USA:140 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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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:
Cassiel: Why can't I be good? Why can't I act like a man? Why can't I act like other men can?
Lou Reed: If I knew, I would tell you. Hang in there.
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Referenced in Learning to Fly (2005) more
Soundtrack:
Slow Tango more

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A Wonderful Cinematic Experience, 29 July 1998
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Although it has received mixed reviews by critics, this follow-u= p to "Der Himmel über Berlin" (1987) is a deeply moving and beautiful film. Wen= ders explores the polarities which exist in a newly unified Berlin and in so doing examines some of the polarities which exist in life itself. As "Cassiel," Otto Sander has given us another endearing Wenders protagonis= t who learns all too quickly about what life (and time) can present upon a= n individual. Laurent Petitgand's stunning musical score enhances the subl= ime images photographed by Jürgen Jürges. Although "Der Himmel über Be= rlin" (1987), is an almost mandetory pre-requisit, "In weiter Ferne, so nah!"= (1993) is a vastly different film which proves itself in its own right.= Cinema has produced many wonderful films over the past century or so, bu= t when looking at the various elements of film combined here, there is no other movie which touches me quite so positively, quite as deeply as thi= s one.

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