GERMANY · 1993

Faraway, So Close!

Name: Faraway, So Close!
Released: 1993

Wim Wenders

New German Cinema 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.

Year1993

CountryGermany

DirectorWim Wenders

MovementNew German Cinema

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