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Run Lola Run (Lola rennt)
Lola and Manni are lovers. Manni has completely botched up the handover of money when smuggling some cars. He is in despair and calls Lola. But how can she get 100,000 Bucks together in only 20 minutes to save her lover's life? The situation seems hopeless. The clock starts ticking and Lola runs.... Franka Potente and Moritz Bleibtreu: a Bonnie & Clyde in the Berlin of the 90s.
Tom Tykwer was born in Wuppertal in 1965. His first feature Deadly Maria (Die toedliche Maria, 1993) was named Best Film by the German Film Critics' Association in 1994, and won the Eastman Promotional Award at Hof and the Bavarian Film Award for Best Newcomer Director. He was also co-author on Wolfgang Becker's 1997 Berlinale competition entry Life is All You Get (Das Leben ist eine Baustelle). In 1998, Tykwer was awarded a German Film Award in Silver in the category Best Feature Film for Wintersleepers (Winterschlaefer, 1997). His film Run Lola Run (Lola rennt, 1998) won two German Film Awards in Gold in 1999 for Best Director and Best Feature Film, and was submitted as the German entry for the 1999 OSCAR for Best Foreign Language Film. His other films include: Because (short, 1990), Epilog (short, 1991), The Princess and the Warrior (Der Krieger und die Kaiserin, 2000), Heaven (2001), True (short, 2003), and The International (2009).
Genre Tragicomedy
Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 1998
Director Tom Tykwer
Screenplay Tom Tykwer
Director of Photography Frank Griebe
Editor Mathilde Bonnefoy
Music by Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, Tom Tykwer
Producer Stefan Arndt
Production Company X Filme Creative Pool/Berlin, in co-production with WDR/Cologne
Principal Cast Moritz Bleibtreu, Heino Ferch, Herbert Knaup, Joachim Król, Franka Potente
Length 81 min, 2,216 m
Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85
Original Version German
Subtitled Versions English, Italian, French
Sound Technology Dolby Digital
Festival Screenings Venice 1998 (in competition), Montreal 1998, Toronto 1998, Genf 1998, Thessaloniki 1998, Sundance 1999, Berlin 1999 (German Films), Cairo 2003
Awards German Film Awards 1999 for Best Film & Best Director
With backing from German Federal Film Board (FFA), BKM, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern
World Sales
Bavaria Film International / Dept. of Bavaria Media GmbH
Thorsten Ritter
Bavariafilmplatz 7
82031 Geiselgasteig/Germany
phone +49-89-64 99 26 86
fax +49-89-64 99 37 20
email: international@bavaria-film.de
http://www.bavaria-film-international.com
Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 1998
Director Tom Tykwer
Screenplay Tom Tykwer
Director of Photography Frank Griebe
Editor Mathilde Bonnefoy
Music by Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, Tom Tykwer
Producer Stefan Arndt
Production Company X Filme Creative Pool/Berlin, in co-production with WDR/Cologne
Principal Cast Moritz Bleibtreu, Heino Ferch, Herbert Knaup, Joachim Król, Franka Potente
Length 81 min, 2,216 m
Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85
Original Version German
Subtitled Versions English, Italian, French
Sound Technology Dolby Digital
Festival Screenings Venice 1998 (in competition), Montreal 1998, Toronto 1998, Genf 1998, Thessaloniki 1998, Sundance 1999, Berlin 1999 (German Films), Cairo 2003
Awards German Film Awards 1999 for Best Film & Best Director
With backing from German Federal Film Board (FFA), BKM, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern
World Sales
Bavaria Film International / Dept. of Bavaria Media GmbH
Thorsten Ritter
Bavariafilmplatz 7
82031 Geiselgasteig/Germany
phone +49-89-64 99 26 86
fax +49-89-64 99 37 20
email: international@bavaria-film.de
http://www.bavaria-film-international.com