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Faraway, So Close!
GERMANY · 1993

Faraway, So Close!

Wim Wenders
angels observing humanity post-reunification Berlin corruption and crime divine perspective on human existence cultural displacement
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Synopsis

A group of angels look longingly upon the life of humans. Berlin now is a very different place: unified in name but overrun with crime, corruption, and—in what turns out to be a key theme here—Americans.

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