''Faraway, So Close!'' (german: In weiter Ferne, so nah!) is a 1993 German
fantasy film
Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered a form of speculative fiction alongside science fiction f ...
directed by
Wim Wenders
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (; born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, and photographer. He is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among many honors, he has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Docum ...
. The screenplay is by Wenders,
Richard Reitinger
Richard Reitinger (born 1951) is a German screenwriter. He is known for co-writing the 1987 film ''Wings of Desire'' with Peter Handke and director Wim Wenders. As Handke submitted writings for the project, Reitinger assisted Wenders in scripting ...
and Ulrich Zieger. It is a sequel to Wenders' 1987 film ''
Wings of Desire
''Wings of Desire'' (, ; ) is a 1987 romantic fantasy film written by Wim Wenders, Peter Handke and Richard Reitinger, and directed by Wenders. The film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and listen to the thoughts of its ...
''. Actors
Otto Sander
Otto Sander (; 30 June 1941 – 12 September 2013) was a German film, theater, and voice actor.
Life
Education and early career
Sander grew up in Kassel, where he graduated in 1961 from the Friedrichgymnasium. After leaving school he s ...
,
Bruno Ganz
Bruno Ganz (; 22 March 1941 – 16 February 2019) was a Swiss actor whose career in German stage, television and film productions spanned nearly 60 years. He was known for his collaborations with the directors Werner Herzog, Éric Rohmer, Franc ...
and
Peter Falk
Peter Michael Falk (September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011) was an American film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the long-running television series ''Columbo'' (1968–1978, 1989–2003), for which he ...
reprise their roles as angels who have become human. The film also stars
Nastassja Kinski
Nastassja Aglaia Kinski (; , ; born 24 January 1961) is a German actress and former model who has appeared in more than 60 films in Europe and the United States. Her worldwide breakthrough was with ''Stay as You Are'' (1978). She then came to gl ...
,
Willem Dafoe
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and
Heinz Rühmann
Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann (; 7 March 1902 – 3 October 1994) was a German film actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1926 and 1993. He is one of the most famous and popular German actors of the 20th century, and is considered a Ge ...
, in his last film role.
The story follows the angel Cassiel, who unlike his friend Damiel, chose not to become human in the original despite being told of the joys of life. Cassiel only becomes human in the
reunified Berlin, but quickly becomes involved in a criminal enterprise that threatens his newfound life and his friends.
Wenders opted to pursue the project, desiring to make a film set in Berlin after the fall of the
Wall
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* Walls in buildings that form a fundamental part of the supe ...
. Sander also wished to pursue a storyline in which his character becomes human, and contributed ideas for the plot. ''Faraway, So Close!'' won the ''
Grand Prix du Jury'' at the
1993 Cannes Film Festival
The 46th Cannes Film Festival was held from 13 to 24 May 1993. The Palme d'Or went to '' Farewell My Concubine'' by Chen Kaige and ''The Piano'' by Jane Campion.
The festival opened with ''My Favorite Season'', directed by André Téchiné and cl ...
, but enjoyed less critical success than its predecessor.
Plot
Cassiel and Raphaella, two
angel
In various theistic religious traditions an angel is a supernatural spiritual being who serves God.
Abrahamic religions often depict angels as benevolent celestial intermediaries between God (or Heaven) and humanity. Other roles include ...
s, observe the busy life of reunited
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
. Due to their divine origin, they can hear the thoughts of the people around them, and try to console a dying man. Cassiel has been following his friend Damiel (a former angel), who senses his presence and talks about his experiences as a human. He owns a
pizza parlor
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named Casa dell'angelo (Angel's House) and has married Marion, a
trapeze
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artist whom he met when an angel. She works in a local bar in
West Berlin
West Berlin (german: Berlin (West) or , ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin during the years of the Cold War. Although West Berlin was de jure not part of West Germany, lacked any sovereignty, and was under mi ...
, and the two have a young daughter, Doria.
Cassiel follows Raissa Becker, an 11-year-old girl who lives in the former
East Berlin
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. He observes her life and notices that she and her mother Hanna Becker are being followed by
Philip Winter, a detective who works for Anton Baker. The latter is an American
arms dealer and pornographer who owns a transport company.
Cassiel follows Hanna Becker (and Winter) to an abandoned building in the outskirts of East Berlin. As Raphaella and Cassiel sit on top of the
Brandenburg Gate
The Brandenburg Gate (german: Brandenburger Tor ) is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, built on the orders of Prussian king Frederick William II after restoring the Orangist power by suppressing the Dutch popular unrest. One ...
, he expresses a desire to experience human life. Visiting Raissa, he finds her alone at her flat and leaning over the balcony railing. As she falls, Cassiel tries to save her and suddenly becomes human, catching the child. He has to adjust to the transformation, learning to modulate the volume of his voice and to negotiate streets and avoid being hit by cars. His only possession is an angel's armor, which became tangible when he leaped into humanity. In the
underground
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* Subterranea (geography), the regions beneath the surface of the Earth
Underground may also refer to:
Places
* The Underground (Boston), a music club in the Allston neighborhood of Boston
* The Underground ...
(subway), Cassiel is tricked into gambling by Emit Flesti, losing his armor and money won during the game. Raphaella begs Flesti to give Cassiel time to understand what it is to be a human; he agrees but does not promise to stop hunting him.
Arrested and detained, Cassiel struggles to satisfy police demands for identification. He cannot give (or comprehend) his name or address, but refers the police to his friend's pizza shop. Damiel arrives at the station and takes his now human friend home. Tricked by Flesti into drinking alcohol, he becomes
addicted and robs a shop with a gun taken from a teenager, who had been planning to kill his abusive stepfather. Cassiel begins begging to make his way and feigns a car accident with Baker to compel him to pay for the forging of a passport and birth certificate he has ordered under the name Karl Engel (Charles Angel). Baker hires Cassiel as his
valet
A valet or varlet is a male servant who serves as personal attendant to his employer. In the Middle Ages and Ancien Régime, valet de chambre was a role for junior courtiers and specialists such as artists in a royal court, but the term "vale ...
, to pass him cards for cheating his fellow gangsters at poker. Stopping by Casa dell'Angelo to return items borrowed from Damiel, Cassiel encounters Flesti again. He is collecting money from Damiel, after having loaned him money to set up the business. After Cassiel saves Baker's life, Baker makes Cassiel his partner. But after learning the true nature of his business, Cassiel decides to leave Baker's service and stop him. Winter is killed by Flesti.
With the help of former angel
Peter Falk
Peter Michael Falk (September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011) was an American film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the long-running television series ''Columbo'' (1968–1978, 1989–2003), for which he ...
, Cassiel gets into Baker's airport storage area. His team takes all the weapons and destroy the pornography copying machines. They send the weapons to a
barge
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owned by other friends. Once having completed the plan, Cassiel feels ready to live as a human, but Flesti reports that Baker's rival, Patzke, has hijacked the barge with Baker's and Cassiel's friends inside. Becker is also captured and reunites with his sister, Hannah, on board.
Flesti reveals himself as
Time
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and says that he has to make Cassiel understand he does not belong in the human world; he has a word written on his forehead. At a boat lift, Cassiel gets on the barge and frees Raissa, moments before being killed. Flesti slows time so the rest can take over the barge and save the entire party. Cassiel's friends are saddened by his death, but when Damiel hears a ring in his ear, he understands that Cassiel has been reinstated as an angel and is near, and Damiel laughs in joy.
Cast
Themes
Writers later assessed the film as having more religious themes than the original. Peter Hasenberg wrote it contains the two films' first reference to God, when the angels state a purpose to connect humans with "Him". Andrew Tate noted a quote from
Matthew 6:22 and
Matthew 6:23 in the film, attributing this to Wenders personally converting back to Christianity in the time between the original and sequel. Tate also noted ''Faraway, So Close!'' is followed by the 1998 U.S.
remake
A remake is a film, television series, video game, song or similar form of entertainment that is based upon and retells the story of an earlier production in the same medium—e.g., a "new version of an existing film". A remake tells the same ...
''
City of Angels'', which he said references "mythic phenomena".
Professor Martin Jesinghausen judged the sequel to differ from the original's presumption that the
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (german: Berliner Mauer, ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and East Germany (GDR). Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government ...
would never fall, and concluded the lack of divides made the sequel "less powerful". Professor Roger Bromley defended ''Faraway, So Close!'' as more than a mere sequel, saying it is "fairly formless" but this is fitting for the "incomplete modernity" in film and life following the
Revolutions of 1989
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. Academic Roger Cook argued that, as with the original and Wenders' 1984 road movie ''
Paris, Texas
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History
Present-day Lamar County was part of Red River Co ...
'', ''Faraway, So Close!'' advocates for "
narrative
A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travel literature, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller (ge ...
's potential to sustain both individual and cultural identity".
Production
Director
Wim Wenders
Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (; born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, and photographer. He is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among many honors, he has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Docum ...
' film ''
Wings of Desire
''Wings of Desire'' (, ; ) is a 1987 romantic fantasy film written by Wim Wenders, Peter Handke and Richard Reitinger, and directed by Wenders. The film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and listen to the thoughts of its ...
'' is set in Berlin at the time of the
Wall
A wall is a structure and a surface that defines an area; carries a load; provides security, shelter, or soundproofing; or, is decorative. There are many kinds of walls, including:
* Walls in buildings that form a fundamental part of the supe ...
. He opted to make a sequel, desiring to explore Berlin post-
reunification
A political union is a type of political entity which is composed of, or created from, smaller polities, or the process which achieves this. These smaller polities are usually called federated states and federal territories in a federal governm ...
, more so than for the sake of having a sequel, though the original ends with "
To be continued
A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode or a film of serialized fiction. A cliffhang ...
". Wenders had earlier planned to make a film about the evolved Berlin in 1991, but not with ''Wings of Desire'' characters, only doing so upon considering that only his angels could observe the moral changes he found problematic.
Otto Sander
Otto Sander (; 30 June 1941 – 12 September 2013) was a German film, theater, and voice actor.
Life
Education and early career
Sander grew up in Kassel, where he graduated in 1961 from the Friedrichgymnasium. After leaving school he s ...
, who reprises his role as the angel Cassiel, wished to see him become human, an idea unresolved in the first film. Wenders credited Sander with the idea of Cassiel descending into crime.
Richard Reitinger
Richard Reitinger (born 1951) is a German screenwriter. He is known for co-writing the 1987 film ''Wings of Desire'' with Peter Handke and director Wim Wenders. As Handke submitted writings for the project, Reitinger assisted Wenders in scripting ...
and Ulrich Ziegler wrote the bulk of the screenplay, with Wenders also credited. Due to the larger budget than the original, Road Movies Filmproduktion made the film without original producer
Anatole Dauman
Anatole Dauman (7 February 1925 in Warsaw – 8 April 1998 in Paris) was a French film producer. He produced films by Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Bresson, Wim Wenders, Nagisa Oshima, Andrei Tarkovsky, Chris Marker, Volker Schlöndorff, Walerian Bo ...
and Argos.
![West and East Germans at the Brandenburg Gate in 1989](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/West_and_East_Germans_at_the_Brandenburg_Gate_in_1989.jpg)
The film features
cameo appearance
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s by the singer
Lou Reed
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, the American actor
Peter Falk
Peter Michael Falk (September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011) was an American film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the long-running television series ''Columbo'' (1968–1978, 1989–2003), for which he ...
, reprising his role from the first film,
and former
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet politician who served as the 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to dissolution of the Soviet Union, the country's dissolution in 1991. He served a ...
, all of whom play themselves. Gorbachev had never acted in a film before.
His appearance was rare, but not entirely unprecedented for a politician, as
Australian Prime Minister
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Gough Whitlam
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and
New York Mayor
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John Lindsay
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had appeared in films.
Heinz Rühmann
Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann (; 7 March 1902 – 3 October 1994) was a German film actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1926 and 1993. He is one of the most famous and popular German actors of the 20th century, and is considered a Ge ...
was also cast, and his death in October 1994 made this his last role. Much of the first three weeks of photography went unused in the final edit, due to its influence from ''Wings of Desire'' and Wenders' aversion to sequels.
Music
The ''Faraway, So Close!: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' was released on September 6, 1993, in Europe and Canada, and January 25, 1994, in the United States by
EMI Electrola
Electrola is a German record label and subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Based in Munich, its roster has included Chumbawamba, Matthias Reim, Helene Fischer, Brings, Höhner and Santiano.
History
On 8 May 1925 the British Gramophone Company ...
. The twenty-track album has a run time of 76:33.
The soundtrack mix of the U2 songs "
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
"Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" is a song by rock band U2. It is the fifth track on their 1993 album, '' Zooropa'', and was released as the album's third single on 22 November 1993. The song reached number one in Ireland and reached the top 10 in ...
" and "The Wanderer" are augmentations of the original versions included on the July 1993 release of ''
Zooropa
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''.
Release
''Faraway, So Close!'' competed at the
Cannes Film Festival
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in May 1993.
In late 1993, it made its U.S. debut at the
Telluride Film Festival
The Telluride Film Festival (TFF) is a film festival held annually in Telluride, Colorado during Labor Day weekend (the first Monday in September). The 49th edition took place on September 2 -6, 2022.
History
First held on 30 August 1974, th ...
, where Wim Wenders introduced it personally.
It also reached theatres in Germany.
A
limited release
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in the U.S. followed in December.
In the film's international release, press releases straightforwardly noted "''Faraway, So Close'' marks Mikhail Gorbachev's feature film debut".
On its first weekend, it made $55,019 and finished its run grossing $810,455 in North America.
Reception
![Nastassja Kinski Cannes (1990)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Nastassja_Kinski_Cannes_%281990%29.jpg)
On
review aggregator
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website
Rotten Tomatoes
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, ''Faraway, So Close!'' holds a 58% approval rating based on 12 reviews, with an average rating of 5.80/10.
''
The New York Times
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'' critic
Caryn James
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Biography
James is one of at least three children born to James M. Fuoroli Sr. and Joan A. Ford. A native of Providence, Rhode Islan ...
described the film as "lyrical and profoundly goofy" and "one of the more intriguing messes on screen".
Desson Howe
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Biography
...
wrote in ''
The Washington Post
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'' that while the sequel was not totally unsuccessful, "the narrative journey up to this point has been so frustrating and inconsistent, the conclusion feels like an afterthought".
''
Time
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''s
Richard Corliss
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He was the former editor-in-chief of '' Film Commen ...
summarized it as "a wondrous mess".
The ''
Los Angeles Times
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'' critic Kevin Thomas was more positive, assessing it as "just as luminous as" and "a considerably more complex film than ''Wings of Desire''."
Roger Ebert
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contemplated the casting of
Nastassja Kinski
Nastassja Aglaia Kinski (; , ; born 24 January 1961) is a German actress and former model who has appeared in more than 60 films in Europe and the United States. Her worldwide breakthrough was with ''Stay as You Are'' (1978). She then came to gl ...
as a new angel character, writing, "A few years ago Kinski would have been cast as one of the humans. Now her face can reflect the sadness, the experience, the wisdom that allows her to be an angel", explaining his argument by saying that at age 30, Kinski resembled her now-dead father
Klaus
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Notable persons whose family name is Klaus
* Billy Klaus (1928–2006), American base ...
in "The deep-set eyes. The hurt in the lips." ''
New York'' responded to the casting of Gorbachev with a simple "Go figure".
In his ''2007 Movie Guide'',
Leonard Maltin
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gave it two and a half stars, and approved of the casting. ''
Time Out'' dismissed it as "a considerable disappointment".
The film won the ''
Grand Prix du Jury'' at the
1993 Cannes Film Festival
The 46th Cannes Film Festival was held from 13 to 24 May 1993. The Palme d'Or went to '' Farewell My Concubine'' by Chen Kaige and ''The Piano'' by Jane Campion.
The festival opened with ''My Favorite Season'', directed by André Téchiné and cl ...
,
and Best Cinematography for Jürgen Jürges at the
German Film Awards
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**Ger ...
. Its song "
Stay
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Places
* Stay, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the US
Law
* Stay of execution, a ruling to temporarily suspend the enforcement of a court judgment
* Stay of proceedings, a ruling halting further legal process in a tri ...
" was also nominated for the
Golden Globe for Best Song.
See also
*
List of films about angels
This is a list of films where angels appear.
Angels
* ''The Christmas Angel'' (1904)
* ''The Passing of the Third Floor Back'' (1935)
* ''The Green Pastures'' (1936)
* '' Here Comes Mr. Jordan'' (1941)
* ''I Married an Angel'' (1942)
* ''A Guy Na ...
Notes
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