‘Faraway, So Close’

With this shimmering, elegiac 1993 film, Wim Wenders continues the magnificent spiritual odyssey he commenced in 1987 with “Wings of Desire.” The film’s title refers to its angels’ ability to be “close” to humans without being visible to them or being able to affect their destinies. On the most profound of its many levels, it can be taken as an allegory on the coming together of the two Germanys and the sacrifice involved in accomplishing it. A meditation on what it means to be alive today, and in Germany specifically, “Faraway, So Close” seems a considerably more complex film than “Wings of Desire.” Otto Sander (left, with Mikhail S. Gorbachev) and Peter Falk are again featured (Bravo Friday at 5 and 10 p.m.).