It's difficult to create a film that's fast paced, exciting and aesthetically appealing without diluting its dialogue. Run Lola Run, directed and written by Tom Tykwer, is an enchanting balance of pace and narrative, creating a universal parable that leaps over cultural barriers. This is the story of young Lola (Franka Potente) and her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu). In the space of 20 minutes, they must come up with 100,000 deutsche marks to pay back a seedy gangster, who will be less than forgiving when he finds out that Manni incompetently lost his cash to an opportunistic vagrant. Lola, confronted with one obstacle after another, rides an emotional roller coaster in her high-speed efforts to help the hapless Manni--attempting to extract the cash first from her double-dealing father (appropriately a bank manager), and then by any means necessary. From this point nothing goes right for either protagonist, but just when you think you've figured out the movie, the director introduces a series of brilliant existential twists that boggle the mind. Tykwer uses rapid camera movements and innovative pauses to explore the theme of cause and effect. Accompanied by a pulse-pounding soundtrack, we follow Lola through every turn and every heartbreak as she and Manni rush forward on a collision course with fate. There were a variety of original and intelligent films released in 1999, but perhaps none were as witty and clever as this little gem--one of the best foreign films of the year. --Jeremy Storey, Amazon.com
ARMY OF SAVIOURS (unter bauern) is based on the memories of Marga Spiegel. In her narrative, published in 1965, she describes how courageous farmers in southern Munsterland saved her family from deportation to concentration camps in the East.
Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) who works as a small-time courier for a big-time gangster is in huge trouble. He has accidentally left the cash from a mob deal on the subway and he has only twenty minutes to deliver the 100 000 marks to his unforgiving boss. Desperate he calls his girlfriend Lola (Franka Potente) the only person who can rescue him from certain death. As the seconds tick away and the tiniest choices become life altering Lola must try to reach Manni before the line between fate and fortune begins to blur. One story told from three different perspectives Run Lola Run is a veritable maze of intriguing plot twists and heart-stopping suspense in a high-octane thrill ride about one woman's desperate attempt to save her lover.
Istvan Szabo's film Taking Sides - based on true events - recreates the suspenseful post-World War II interrogation of Dr Wilhelm Furtwangler (Stellan Skarsgard) the brilliant conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic who is considered by some to have been the most brilliant conductor of the 20th century. In the course of his de-Nazification by the Allies Furtwangler is forced by a tough-talking American Major (Harvey Keitel) to re-examine his role during the Third Reich in the most u
When a group of hunters travel back in time to the prehistoric era, they mistakenly set off a series of events that threaten to erase humanity from existence.
It's an odd rule: No exchanging of bodily fluids within the team but then it's an odd team. Professional con artists Zorbel (Gtz George) and his spunky daughter Lizzie (Jeanette Hain) have a vacancy for an able pick pocket. Enter the very amiable Rudolf (Felix Eitner) it's a shame that he's so handsome it's a shame that he's so gorgeous it's a shame that he's a crap thief but then you can't have everything or can you? And when it comes to sex it's also a shame that Rudolf can't say no not to the cute Lizzie and definitely not to the flamboyant Zorbel. Rules are made to be broken bodily fluids are made to be exchanged and secrets are made to be exposed. When partners in crime become partners in bed all hell breaks loose in this outrageous sex comedy that keeps it all in the family...
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