Faraway, So Close!
Faraway, So Close German In weiter Ferne, so nah is a 1993 film by German director Wim Wenders. The screenplay is by Wenders, Richard Reitinger and Ulrich Zieger. The film is a sequel to Wenders 1987 film Wings of Desire. Actors Otto Sander and Bruno Ganz reprise their roles as angels visiting Earth. The film also stars Nastassja Kinski, Willem Dafoe and Heinz Rhmann in his last film role. It won the Grand Prix du Jury and was nominated for the Palme dOr at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
Cassiel follows Raisa Becker, an 11yearold girl who lives in the former East Berlin. 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. There he finds that she brings food to Konrad, a man who has acted as a father to her, since his days as her chauffeur during World War II. Traveling back in time, Cassiel is able to see the last days of Berlin late in the war. When the war appeared to have been lost, the father, a doctor, escaped to the United States with his son and adopted the name Baker. The mother Gertrud Becker stayed behind with the young Hanna, both under the care of Konrad. ........
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