Run Lola Run (1998)
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It's become a Hollywood blockbuster trope. The story that splits into branching timelines. The hero who dies, respawns, and tries the level again. Writer-director Tom Tykwer did it in 1998, with a limited budget and an abundance of ingenuity.
RUN LOLA RUN (1998) gives Lola twenty minutes to find a small fortune and save the man she loves, then runs those twenty minutes three times. Each attempt, she brushes the same strangers, and a half-second's difference, a stumble, a slammed door, cascades into an entirely different world. It is a video game, a philosophy lecture, and a techno track fused into one unbroken sprint.
The pounding score driving every step was composed by Tykwer with his musical collective Pale 3, star Franka Potente singing over it. Potente ran straight out of this movie into Hollywood, as the woman at Jason Bourne's side.
About the Film
Every second of every day you're faced with a decision that can change your life.
- Directed By
- Tom Tykwer
- Runtime
- 80 minutes
- Released
- August 20, 1998
- US Theatrical
- June 7, 2024
- Certification
- R
- Country
- Germany
- Starring
- Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri, Armin Rohde
More Credits
- Genres
- Action, Drama, Thriller
- Language
- German, English, Japanese
- Origin
- DE
- Studios
- X Filme Creative Pool
- Written By
- Tom Tykwer
- Produced By
- Stefan Arndt, Maria Köpf, Andreas Schreitmüller, Gebhard Henke
- Cinematography
- Frank Griebe
- Music
- Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil, Tom Tykwer
- Also Starring
- Joachim Król, Ludger Pistor, Suzanne von Borsody, Sebastian Schipper, Julia Lindig
- Budget
- $1,530,000
- Box Office
- $7,660,911
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I saw this in the theater with no knowledge about it before. When the credits had animated characters at the beginning, I was like this is gonna be terrible…then I was absolutely breathless the whole time. Amazing film at that time!
I saw this years ago. Loved it!
Adore this movie. Saw a clip on vh1 when I was a kid and then rented it as soon as it revealed itself on a video store shelf when I was 14. I loved everything about it: the music, the character revelations, and of course Franka herself.
Own this on digital, one of my all time favorites.
And NOBODY has done the “branching timelines” thing better since!
Saw it at the Charles Theater back in the day. Fabulous film, very refreshing.
Zwanzig!
Excellent movie
90’s cinema was so cool and innovative.
At this point I have the VHS and no way to play it 😆
Fun flick. Definitely worth it….
One of those rare flicks from the ’90s, we won’t forget, everyone was in love with Franka Potente those days🖤🤘Cult European classic.
Great movie
Such a great film.
One of the best soundtracks of all time. Still sounds fresh.
Great movie! Franka Potente was awesome.
Epic!
As others have said, I went to see this in Sydney Chinatown Cinema without seeing the Trailer.
Great drama thrill-ride, and of course own the Soundtrack.
Great stuff.💟😊
Not a great film, but Franke is hot.