In weiter Ferne, so nah!
(1993)
Regisseur:
Wim WendersSchauspieler:
Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Falk, Solveig Dommartin, Heinz Rühmann, Rüdiger Vogler, Willem Dafoe, Horst Buchholz, Martin Olbertz, Monika Hansen, Lou Reed, Hanns Zischler, Günter Meisner, Ronald Nitschke, Mikhail GorbachevEngel Cassiel hat die Lust am himmlischen Dasein verloren. Tagaus, tagein beobachtet er die Menschen und ist dazu verurteilt, das Leben immer nur als Zeuge und als Teilnehmer zu erleben. Schließlich wechselt Cassiel die Seite und wird zum Menschen. Doch seine menschliche Existenz ist nicht vom Glück verfolgt, und Cassiel wird in seiner Not Assistent eines Gangsters. Als er aber erkennt, mit welchen Mitteln sein vermeintlicher Freund Geschäfte macht, entschließt er sich zum Eingreifen.
Wim Wenders’ Weiterführung seines Erfolges “Der Himmel über Berlin” bringt den Engel Cassiel als Mensch auf die Erde, wo er unfreiwillig Helfer eines Waffenhändlers wird und beschließt, sich zu befreien. Melancholische Meditation mit bemerkenswerten Auftritten von Heinz Rühmann und Michail Gorbatschow.
The film opens with the angel Cassiel (Otto Sander) standing on the statue of the Angel of Victory overlooking post-Cold War Berlin. Growing ever more despondent over his fate as a mere observer of human life, rather than a vital part of it, Cassiel dreams of "crossing over" to the human world.And he does, as Karl Engel, a man who perhaps knows too much, perhaps like in many of Hitchcock's films, some harmless citizen who gets involved in an affair to which he is not up to. In fact, there is no one as kind and harmless as this newborn citizen of the Earth.We will follow Cassiels's adventures into a "thriller." This story which gets mangled with his own life is about weapons, more precisely about a weapon deal where the weapons - or INSTRUMENTS of violence -- are traded for IMAGES of violence.(Text from Wim Wenders site)
The film opens with the angel Cassiel (Otto Sander) standing on the statue of the Angel of Victory overlooking post-Cold War Berlin. Growing ever more despondent over his fate as a mere observer of human life, rather than a vital part of it, Cassiel dreams of "crossing over" to the human world.And he does, as Karl Engel, a man who perhaps knows too much, perhaps like in many of Hitchcock's films, some harmless citizen who gets involved in an affair to which he is not up to. In fact, there is no one as kind and harmless as this newborn citizen of the Earth.We will follow Cassiels's adventures into a "thriller." This story which gets mangled with his own life is about weapons, more precisely about a weapon deal where the weapons - or INSTRUMENTS of violence -- are traded for IMAGES of violence.(Text from Wim Wenders site)