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Lola rennt (German with French subtitles)
Location
Main screening room
Date
July 20th, 2026
Duration
81 min
Cycle
Action!

Action! If there’s one word associated with cinema, the tension of movie sets, and the focus of attention, it’s this one. Action is very often at the heart of popular cinema: Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock hands in Safety Last! (1923), Cary Grant threatened and strafed by a plane in North by Northwest (1959), Franka Potente gasping for air in Run Lola Run (1998)... Westerns, swashbuckler films, martial arts or adventure flicks, thrillers, all these genres rely on action—sometimes frenetic, sometimes meticulously measured.

From movies by Sergei Eisenstein to Gilles Carle, from John Ford to John Boorman and Werner Herzog, via Paul Verhoeven, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook, Érik Canuel, and Nicolas Winding Refn, this series will take you through the full range of emotions, from laughter to thrills, from fear to satisfaction.

Run Lola Run
Directed by
Tom Tykwer
Language
German with French subtitles
Actors
Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup
Origins
Germany
Year
1998
Duration
81 min
Genre
Action, crime, thriller
Format
35 mm
Synopsis

After a failed money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to find 100,000 Deutschmarks.

Run Lola Run
Cours, Lola, cours se pose comme une réflexion philosophique sur le hasard et le destin. Comme Kieslowski, Resnais, Ramis et Rubin ou Howitt, Tykwer développe, à partir d'un même drame initial, plusieurs trajectoires dramatiques distinctes. L'originalité de son entreprise tient à ce que la méditation philosophique qu'il propose est essentiellement suggérée par la construction et le traitement visuel et sonore du film, plutôt que par l'emploi de longs et graves dialogues ou, par exemple, par un développement approfondi du caractère des personnages.
Dominique Pellerin
Séquences, 1999

Tom Tykwer

Tom Tykwer is a German filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing the thriller films Run Lola Run (1998), Heaven (2002), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), and The International (2009). He collaborated with The Wachowskis as co-director for the science fiction film Cloud Atlas (2012) and the Netflix series Sense8 (2015–2018), and worked on the score for Lana Wachowski's The Matrix Resurrections (2021). Tykwer is also the co-creator of the internationally acclaimed German television series Babylon Berlin (2017–22). As a filmmaker, he is known for his vibrant, dynamic, and colorful visual style.

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