After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 28 wins & 21 nominations total
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Did you know
- TriviaAs well as writing and directing the film, Tom Tykwer also composed the techno music which features star Franka Potente on vocals.
- GoofsAt the end of the first run, Manni and Lola rob a supermarket. At the end of the third run, when Lola scans the intersection for Manni, the same supermarket is closed and dark. The filmmakers were unable to secure permission to close down the streets for filming, so the scene was filmed just after dawn on a Sunday morning to avoid traffic.
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[first lines]
[subtitled version]
Narrator: Man... probably the most mysterious species on our planet. A mystery of unanswered questions. Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? How do we know what we think we know? Why do we believe anything at all? Countless questions in search of an answer... an answer that will give rise to a new question... and the next answer will give rise to the next question and so on. But, in the end, isn't it always the same question? And always the same answer?
- Crazy credits"Special thanks to those who ran with us".
- Alternate versionsThe DVD version has different English subtitles than showings on pay-cable stations. Most notably, the opening credits are not translated to English on the DVD version, and small phrases are not translated, such as when Lola goes through everyone she knows, trying to get the money. Only "Dad" is translated.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Clock (2010)
- SoundtracksWish
Vocals by Franka Potente and Thomas D (as Thomas D.)
Music by Tom Tykwer (as Tykwer), Johnny Klimek (as Klimek) and Reinhold Heil (as Heil)
Lyrics by Tom Tykwer and Thomas D (as Thomas D.)
Performed by Franka Potente (as Franka Potenta) feat. Thomas D (as Thomas D.)
A few observations of my own.
Lola's first "run" reveals that her father believes she is not his biological daughter, calls her a "cuckoos egg". And it's quite possible, since we see her mom in all 3 "runs" talking on the phone with someone other than her husband. Lola is devastated. All three "runs" feature the bank security guard, trying to calm down Lola, giving her support. Every time they have intense eye contact, some silent understanding. He once even greets her with "Da bist du ja, Liebling" ("there you are, darling"). Quite strange for a bank employee to call his boss' daughter that, don't you think? We also see early on that he might have a heart condition.
In the last story segment, we see the guard again, in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. Lola caught a ride, for a change, to her meeting destination with Manni. Miraculously, the guard's heart condition improves as his hand reaches toward Lola's. The medic, at first annoyed ("what the heck are you doing here?") is puzzled. Lola's answer to his question, as she reaches for the guard's hand is: "Ich gehoer zu ihm." Very important, I think. Call me silly, but somehow I have this feeling that he might be her illegitimate father. As bank employee he might well have had contact with Lola's mother, and even time to have an affair with her, considering the workaholic dad being gone so much.
"Ich gehoer zu ihm" is badly translated in the subtitles as "I'll stay with him" while the German would better translate into "I belong to him." And that is something Lola could well have realized after her dad abandoned her with the accusation of being a cuckoo's egg.
The guard is also in the beginning of the movie quoting famous soccer coach Sepp Herberger's "the ball is round". It's in the league with Yogi Berra's famous word creations. The ball is round meant for Herberger, that anything can happen as long as the game is on. Expect the unexpected. Since this is a movie that wants the viewer to "think" about possibilities, why not go all the way?
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- Lola Runs
- Filming locations
- Behrenstraße, St.-Hedwigs-Kathedrale, Mitte, Berlin, Germany(Lola runs by nuns)
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Box office
- Budget
- DEM 3,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $7,647,184
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $123,643
- Jun 20, 1999
- Gross worldwide
- $7,659,540
- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1