Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup

A young woman in Germany has twenty minutes to find and bring 100,000 Deutschmarks to her boyfriend before he robs a supermarket.

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R, 1 hr. 21 min.

Directed by: Tom Tykwer

Release Date: June 18, 1999

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DVD Release Date: December 21, 1999

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  • September 14, 2009
    One of the best films of the 90's, I totally fell in love with Franka Potente after this. I remember the hype when it was first released, I still hear people incorrectly state that it's a 10 hour long art film that just shows a woman continually running. Idiots. This is a great f...( read more)ilm and one of my favourites.
  • August 27, 2009
    Lola Rennt is definitely in my top ten favourites. Anyone and everyone in the 21st Century can relate to at least one element of this film. Whether it be in from the family relationship perspective e.g. alienated someway by your parents, the feeling of being shut out, or the feel...( read more)ing of wanting hold onto someone so desperately that you'll do anything for them in order to try and stay with them. But surely the most common theme throughout this film is the essence of TIME. How TIME controls everything and no matter what the normal human being does, we cannot stop it, alter it, or change its course. Time has a knock on effect on the series of events that follow. Ever missed a bus on the way to work, thus you were late for work, imagine the most extreme circumstances and that you were fired for being late, and you were late because you missed the bus and the thought that comes into your head?' If only...' And this chain reaction is exactly what Tykwer is trying to defy. Time. Time and fate. By the end of the film Lola is in control of her own fate. Each time she meets someone on her journey she changes his or her fate.

    A weird and wonderful twist of make-belief through use of a fantastic melange of cinematic techniques, like a timeless bubble. Is it a music video, a computer game, or a 'groundhog' type film? It's all free for interpretation. Tykwer put a lot of thought into the use of medium to keep the audiences attention, to convince them that this is a mixture of make-belief and reality. Shown through the use of cartoons verse hand held camera, photographic evidences verses red scenes (reflection time). Possibly we believe by the end of the film?if Lola can change time, change a sequence of events, can we?

    This is a film that I never tire from. Each time I watch it I notice something that I didn't see the first time. The concept of time, its power and our destiny grows stronger, spinning round and round in my head.

    Tick-tock, tick-tock.
  • August 27, 2009
    A young woman receives a phone call from her boyfriend telling her that if he doesn't get 100,000 Deutchmarks within 20 minutes he's a dead man. It tells of the consequences of the phone call in 20 minutes of real time three times over, each containing a slightly differing timeli...( read more)ne, thus showing how minor incidents or coincidence can have a massive knock on effect to not only your life, but those around you. Run Lola Run is very much a product of its time; the techno soundtrack, grunge fashion and fascination with the mathematics of probability (ie "the butterfly effect") all reek of the 1990s, but Run Lola Run still feels strangely fresh, probably because of its brisk, no-nonsense pace and 75 minute running time meaning it never gets too caught up in pretentious navel gazing. I could have lived without some of the directorial affectations that made it feel a little too much like a music video in places, and the coincidences are of course extremely unlikely, but the urban crime element gives it a Luc Besson-esque flavour that makes for an entertaining and original experience.
  • March 17, 2009
    Tom Tykwer is the visionary that most filmmakers only dream of being. This is a work of true originality, manipulating time and space as it ponders over the many possibilities that can result from a simple choice. Short and swift, Run Lola Run is a masterpiece, and is destined ...( read more)to be one of the most noteworthy films of this decade, if not the last few decades.
  • March 16, 2009
    Crazy german filmmaking...I need to see this again - it was pretty good
  • November 2, 2009
    An original and well directed thriller but very unemotional and superficial.
    It's more like you're watching a videogame instead of a film, the soundtrack was pretty lousy too and the acting below par.

    For better movies on this theme (coincidences; movies that handle one situat...( read more)ion from different angles), try La Via Lactea (superb Brazilian film), Smoking-no Smoking by Alain Resnais or Akira Kurosawa's Rashômon. I rate all those higher than this one.
  • October 31, 2009
    !Comercial or Stupid! :|
  • October 27, 2009
    A great, fast paced, action film.
  • October 27, 2009
    Tom Tykwer consegue fazer filmes lindos. Esse é um.
  • October 26, 2009
    Original, exciting, and well-directed pic.

Critic Reviews


January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

A film of nonstop motion and visual invention. full review

January 1, 2000
David Edelstein, Slate

Run Lola Run is more than the sum of its gimmicks: It has a real worldview. full review

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Comments


  • oakjon
    October 9, 2008
    My only critisim about this movie is the soundtrack....i dont get why a tribal/jungle type song is played half way though it
  • zododay54
    February 27, 2008
    ES UNA PELICULA FANTASTICA MUY ORIGINAL. CON SUS DIFERENTES FINALES. ES GRANDIOSA.
  • embrianna1281
    May 4, 2007
    Beautiful Alternative ending movie. Fast, fun, and flirty. Franka is amazing! Music fit so well, actors perfect... Thanks to my Film Lit class.. I am forever in love with this movie!!
  • Username626
    June 21, 2006
    I love this movie some things about it are just classic. I owe my love of the movie due to the repetitive showing of it in my high school german class. We must have watched it about 40 times over four years, 60 if you include the times we only watched parts.

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