Country
France
Date
May 18, 1993
Note
Cannes Film Festival
Your favorite Angels are back!
2h 27min
Overall average
5.0/10
Trailer
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Plot
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.
Main cast
Full cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Willem Dafoe | Emit Flesti |
| Horst Buchholz | Tony Baker |
| Martin Olbertz | The Dying Man |
| Monika Hansen | Hanna / Gertrud Becker |
| Lou Reed | Lou Reed |
| Hanns Zischler | Dr. Becker |
| Günter Meisner | Forger |
| Ronald Nitschke | Patzke |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| Gerd Wameling | Security Guard |
| Matthias Zelic | Salesman |
| Udo Samel | Security Guard |
| Aline Krajewski | Raissa |
| Tilmann Vierzig | Young Konrad |
| Antonia Westphal | Young Hanna |
| Ingo Schmitz | Anton Becker |
| Sascha Wohlatz | Teenager |
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| Lasse Lehmann | Teenager |
| Marcel Jelinski | Teenager |
| Nils Schildhauer | Teenager |
| Patrick Winz | Teenager |
| Benjamin Winz | Teenager |
| Camilla Pontabry | Doria |
| Frédéric Darié | Maurice |
| Jean-Marie Rase | Jules |
| Lajos Kovács | Lali |
| Bruno Krief | Paul |
| Armance Brown | Paula |
| Henri Alekan | Captain |
| Hugues Delforge | Les Elastonautes |
| Claude Poncelet | Les Elastonautes |
| Susanne Jansen | Woman in the Gallery |
| Bob Rutman | Artist |
| Yella Rottländer | Winter's Angel |
| Alexander Hauff | Taxi Driver |
| Andrzej Pieczyński | Czomsky |
| Natan Fyodorovsky | Russian |
| Louis Cochet | Louis |
| Johanna Penski | Flower Woman |
| Steffi Hiller | Passerby |
| Eberhard Knappe | Passerby |
| Shefqet Namani | Shell Player |
| Klaus-Jürgen Steinmann | Police Officer |
| Nadja Engel | Woman Slapped in the Face |
| Daniela Nasimcova | Angel |
| Gunter Kelm | Museum Attendant |
| Heinz-Peter Graubaum | Museum Attendant |
| Claude Lergenmüller | Andre |
| Melanie Pontabry | Melanie |
| Alfred Sczczot | Grumpy |
| Esam Tolba | Fourth Gambler |
| Tom Farrell | Patient in Coma (uncredited) |
| Kora Kirby | Young Girl (uncredited) |
Genres
DramaFantasyRomance
Technical details
| Dettaglio | Valore |
|---|---|
| Titolo originale | In weiter Ferne, so nah! |
| Lingua originale | Deutsch (DE) |
| Lingue parlate | Pусский, Deutsch, Italiano, Français, English |
| Paesi di produzione | Germany |
| Stato | Released |
| Compagnie di produzione | Tobis, Road Movies |
| Data di uscita | 1 settembre 1993 |
| Producer | Wim Wenders, Ulrich Felsberg, Michael Schwarz |
| Writer | Ulrich Zieger, Wim Wenders, Richard Reitinger, Lothar Trolle, Daniel Ganz |
| Editors | Peter Przygodda |
| Cinematography | Jürgen Jürges, Hagen Bogdanski, Benjamin Dernbecher, Jörg Widmer, Martina Radwan, Claus Gerling, Ralf Leistl, Andreas Neubauer |
| Asst. Directors | Caroline Veyssière, Scott Kirby, Anyon Rey, Wim Wenders, Katrin Mehlhop |
| Lighting | Jürgen Bosse, Stefan Breitel, Jost Engelmayer, Paul Freuer, Marco Teuchert, Martin Fischer |
| Camera Operators | Jörg Widmer, Jürgen Jürges, Hagen Bogdanski, Benjamin Dernbecher, Martina Radwan, Claus Gerling, Ralf Leistl, Andreas Neubauer |
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Release dates
Premiere
Country
Thailand
Date
Oct 09, 2025
Note
Bangkok International Film Festival
Limited release
Country
Sweden
Date
Sep 01, 1993
Certification
11
Country
Czechia
Date
Mar 31, 1995
Certification
15+
Note
Film clubs and art cinemas only
Theatrical release
Country
France
Date
Sep 01, 1993
Certification
TP
Country
Germany
Date
Sep 09, 1993
Certification
6
Country
United States
Date
Dec 21, 1993
Certification
PG-13
Country
Netherlands
Date
May 05, 1994
Certification
12
Physical media
Country
Brazil
Date
Sep 12, 2000
Note
DVD
Country
Russia
Date
Apr 30, 2005
Certification
12+
Note
DVD
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