Faraway, So Close!

Infobox Film
name = Faraway, So Close!


caption = Movie poster
director = Wim Wenders
producer = Ulrich Felsberg
Michael Schwarz
Wim Wenders
writer = Richard Reitinger
Wim Wenders
Ulrich Zieger
starring = Otto Sander
Bruno Ganz
Heinz Rühmann
Peter Falk
Nastassja Kinski
Willem Dafoe
Solveig Dommartin
Rüdiger Vogler
music = Laurent Petitgand
Nick Cave
Laurie Anderson
Lou Reed
cinematography = Jürgen Jürges
editing = Peter Przygodda
distributor = Sony Pictures Classics
released = flagicon|France May 18, 1993 (Cannes Film Festival)
flagicon|France September 1, 1993 (wide)
flagicon|Germany September 9, 1993
flagicon|United States December 21, 1993
flagicon|UK July 1, 1994
runtime = 144 min. (German)
140 min. (U.S.)
country = Germany
language = German/French/English
budget =
preceded_by = "Wings of Desire"
amg_id = 1:148268
imdb_id = 0107209

"Faraway, So Close!" ( _de. 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, and the film also stars Nastassja Kinski, Willem Dafoe and Heinz Rühmann (in his last film role).

Cameos

It also features cameo appearances by singer Lou Reed, American actor Peter Falk and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, all of whom play themselves.

Music

U2's song "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" on their 1993's album "Zooropa" was written for the film, and is based on the film's idea of angels wanting to live on earth.

The film won the "Grand Prix du Jury" and was nominated for the "Palme d'or" at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.

External links

* [http://www.wim-wenders.com/movies/movies_spec/farawaysoclose/far_away_so_close.htm Official website]
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title=Grand Prix du Jury, Cannes
years=1993
before="The Stolen Children"
after="To Live" tied with
"Burnt by the Sun"