Faraway, So Close!
Release date: 1993-09-01
Votes: 175
Genres: Drama, Fantasy
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.
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