Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 06/22/2001(USA
Release Date: 01/29/2002
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol/Por
Dubbed: Ger
Sound: DD5.1/DDS2.0
Run Time: 133 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
Director
Tom Tykwer followed up his international hit
Lola Rennt (
Run Lola Run) with this
drama, which also examines young people living on the edges of the law.
Sisi (
Franka Potente) is an attractive but withdrawn woman who works in a psychiatric clinic, while
Bodo (
Benno Fürmann) is looking to make some quick money after his recent release from the army.
Bodo robs a gas station and is fleeing on foot when he accidentally causes
Sisi to be hit by a truck. Realizing she's seriously injured,
Bodo comes to
Sisi's rescue and performs an emergency tracheotomy on her before he escapes again.
Sisi, who is often pursued by men but shies away from their advances, finds that she longs to meet the mysterious
Bodo again, and eventually tracks him down to a hideout he shares with his brother,
Walter (
Joachim Krol).
Bodo and
Walter angrily send
Sisi away, but she unexpectedly encounters them when they pull a robbery at a bank where she's running an errand.
Bodo and
Walter are caught in a shoot-out with police, and
Sisi helps to spirit
Bodo away to the clinic where she works, trying to spare him the grim news that
Walter was killed in the melee. In addition to serving as writer and director,
Tom Tykwer also composed the musical score for
The Princess and the Warrior in collaboration with
Johnny Klimek and
Reinhold Heil.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
