Videos: Lola Rennt (1998) – Run, Lola, Run (1999)

Lola Rennt (1998) theatrical poster

Audience Award, World Cinema, 1999 Sundance Film Festival.
Best Film, 1999 Seattle International Film Festival
One of the five Best Foreign Films of the year, National Board of Review.

If you haven’t seen Run, Lola, Run, the English-titled release of the German Lola rennt (literally “Lola runs”), SEE IT! Don’t even watch these videos first.

Spoiler alert: The title character runs. Beyond that, the less you know beforehand, the better. Seriously. Just see it.

In case you’re wondering who had this hair first: Milla Jovovich starred in The Fifth Element (1997) a year earlier. Besides, they’re less similar than some people seem to think. The hair, that is. The movies actually have more similarities than almost anybody ever mentions.

Theatrical trailer: Run, Lola, Run.

Our readers probably best know its star Franka Potente as Marie from The Bourne Identity movies. A lot of people watching the movie don’t realize that the voice in the song which recurs throughout the film is Franka’s. Here she performs the video for the 4-minute version of “Believe.”

And here she does the related song “Wish (Komm zu mir).”