Young nurse Sissi lives a secluded life entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum. Her first encounter with ex-soldier and drifter Bodo has a lasting impact. He causes an accident in which he provides first aid, Sissi wonders if he may be the man of her dreams. But when she finds him weeks later she is rejected, as Bodo is stuck somewhere between a traumatic past and a criminal future.
Direction
Tykwer's hypnotic visual poetry between Run Lola Run extremes
Acting
Potente's ethereal stillness meeting Fürmann's wounded volatility
Cinematography
Dreamlike asylum corridors and rain-soaked German landscapes
Director
Tom Tykwer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tom Tykwer made this immediately after Run Lola Run as a deliberate palette cleanser, calling it his 'anti-Lola' film.
The infamous 'resuscitation kiss' scene was achieved with Potente actually underwater for extended takes, not using breath-holding tricks.
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