Faraway, So Close!
1993-09-01A 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.

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.

Cassiel
Otto Sander

Damiel
Bruno Ganz

Raphaela
Nastassja Kinski

Peter Falk
Peter Falk

Marion
Solveig Dommartin

Konrad
Heinz Rühmann

Phillip Winter
Rüdiger Vogler

Emit Flesti
Willem Dafoe

Tony Baker
Horst Buchholz

The Dying Man
Martin Olbertz

Hanna / Gertrud Becker
Monika Hansen

Lou Reed
Lou Reed

Dr. Becker
Hanns Zischler
Forger
Günter Meisner

Patzke
Ronald Nitschke

Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev

Security Guard
Gerd Wameling
Salesman
Matthias Zelic

Security Guard
Udo Samel
Raissa
Aline Krajewski
Young Konrad
Tilmann Vierzig
Young Hanna
Antonia Westphal
Anton Becker
Ingo Schmitz
Teenager
Sascha Wohlatz
Teenager
Lasse Lehmann
Teenager
Marcel Jelinski
Teenager
Nils Schildhauer
Teenager
Patrick Winz
Teenager
Benjamin Winz
Doria
Camilla Pontabry
Maurice
Frédéric Darié
Jules
Jean-Marie Rase

Lali
Lajos Kovács
Paul
Bruno Krief
Paula
Armance Brown

Captain
Henri Alekan
Les Elastonautes
Hugues Delforge
Les Elastonautes
Claude Poncelet
Woman in the Gallery
Susanne Jansen
Artist
Bob Rutman

Winter's Angel
Yella Rottländer

Taxi Driver
Alexander Hauff

Czomsky
Andrzej Pieczyński
Russian
Natan Fyodorovsky
Louis
Louis Cochet

Flower Woman
Johanna Penski
Passerby
Steffi Hiller
Passerby
Eberhard Knappe
Shell Player
Shefqet Namani

Police Officer
Klaus-Jürgen Steinmann

Woman Slapped in the Face
Nadja Engel
Angel
Daniela Nasimcova
Museum Attendant
Gunter Kelm
Museum Attendant
Heinz-Peter Graubaum
Andre
Claude Lergenmüller
Melanie
Melanie Pontabry
Grumpy
Alfred Sczczot
Fourth Gambler
Esam Tolba

Patient in Coma (uncredited)
Tom Farrell
Young Girl (uncredited)
Kora Kirby