"The Sky Over Berlin 2" ( In . In Weiter Ferne, so nah!; Eng. Faraway, So Close! ) Is a film by German filmmaker Wim Wenders . Continuation of the Wenders film "Sky over Berlin" in 1987. Cannes Film Festival Jury Award [1] .
| Sky over berlin 2 | |
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| In weiter Ferne, so nah! / Faraway, So Close! / Si loin, si proche! | |
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| Genre | fantasy drama |
| Producer | Wim Wenders |
| Producer | Wim Wenders |
| Author script | Ulrich zieger Wim Wenders Richard Reitinger |
| In the main cast | Otto Zander Bruno Ganz Nastassja Kinski |
| Operator | Jürgen Jürges |
| Composer | Laurent Petigan |
| Film company | Road movie Tobis filmkunst |
| Duration | 144 min. |
| A country |  Germany |
| Tongue | , , , , and |
| Year | 1993 |
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Content
Story
Angel Cassiel, following his friend Damiel, descends from heaven to earth, to Berlin. Angels should not interfere in people's lives, otherwise they will lose their angelic nature. But Cassiel saves the girl who fell from the balcony and becomes mortal. He finds Damiel, who works in a pizzeria, and meets his wife and daughter.
Cassiel takes a job with a certain Becker, the son of a former Nazi who fled to the United States . Becker is engaged in the illegal sale of pornographic products. In addition, he is preparing for the implementation of a large batch of weapons received as payment for pornographic materials. Upon learning of this, Kassiel refuses to work for Becker.
Cast
- Otto Zander - Cassiel
- Bruno Ganz - Damiel
- Nastassja Kinski - Rafaela
- Peter Falk - Peter Falk and the Angel
- Rüdiger Vogler - Phillip Winter
- Solveig Dommartin - Marion
- Willem Dafoe - Emit Flesti
- Horst Buchholz - Tony Baker
- Heinz Rümann - Konrad, chauffeur
- Monica Hansen - Hannah
- Lou Reed - in the role of himself ( cameo )
- Mikhail Gorbachev - Cameo
Production
A small cameo in the film was performed by the President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev , for whom this role became an acting debut in cinema [2] . Despite the fact that the main character of the film is Angel Cassiel, played by Otto Zander , in the opinion of The New York Times newspaper , Wenders took Gorbachev as the most important role - the guardian angel of publicity [2] .
Awards
Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival jury (1993), Bavarian Film Awards - directing (1994).
Video Clip
In 1993, the rock band U2 invited the director Wim Wenders to shoot the video for the song “ Stay (Faraway, So Close!) ”, Which was inspired by the film “Sky over Berlin 2”. The video of the music video includes footage from Wenders’s films “ Sky over Berlin ” and “Sky over Berlin 2”. According to Wenders, creating a music video is significantly different from filming a movie, since the script itself is a song that needs help so that it “looks, sounds and is as interesting as possible” [3] .
Notes
- ↑ Awards 1993: Competition (not available link) . Site of the Cannes Film Festival . The appeal date is March 9, 2015. Archived December 2, 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Caryn James. Review / Film: Faraway, So Close; Wim Wenders' Angels Drop In Another Visit (Eng.) // The New York Times : newspaper. - 1993. - 22 December. - P. C00015 .
- ↑ Wenders, Wim (director). "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" Director's commentary [ The Best of 1990–2000 DVD]. Island Records. (2002).
Links
- “So far, so close!” On wim-wenders.com (English)