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Lola rennt

Tom Tykwer / DE, 1998 / 80 min.

A summer’s day in Berlin. Two lovers have just twenty minutes to change the course of their lives in Tykwer’s scintillating, unpredictable hit film, with a lead role for the streets of Berlin. Tiny choices lead to hugely different outcomes.

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Flamboyant Lola (Franka Potente) gets a panic-stricken telephone call from her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), a gangster’s gopher who’s lost a big bag of money in the metro. If Lola can’t come up with 100,000 Marks inside of twenty minutes, Manni will have to pay with his life. As Lola runs manically through the streets of Berlin and the seconds tick away, the story starts again – and again, and again – their lives taking a different twist each time, culminating in different outcomes.

Special screening in Cinema 1 for a special rate of €7.50 to make up for the cancelled Sunsets open-air screening of Saturday 24 August.

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This movie contains scenes of violencePersons under 12 years must be accompanied by an adultThis movie contains foul language

Director

Tom Tykwer

Production year

1998

Country

DE

Original title

Lola rennt

Length

80 min.

Language

German

Subtitles

ENG

Format

DCP

still Lola rennt (Tom Tykwer, DE 1998)
still Lola rennt (Tom Tykwer, DE 1998)
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