History Film / RunLolaRun

* HeyItsThatVoice: The film is narrated by German actor Hans Paetsch, well known for narrating children's stories.

* RealLifeRelative: The mother of Moritz Bleibtreu (Manni) plays the blind woman whose phone card Manni borrows to call Lola.

* ThrowItIn: When Lola is playing roulette in the final loop an initial take was filmed of the wheel spinning and the ball being dropped, with the intention of later editing it together with a staged shot of the ball landing on twenty to complete the scene and win her the money she needed. However, on that first take ''the ball actually hit twenty!''

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!!''Lola rennt'' contains examples of the following tropes:

** Before Lola starts running, you see Lola's father shake his head. [[spoiler:This tells the audience right away he is not going to give her the money she needs.]]

* AntiRoleModel: Virtually everyone in the film, from the bike thief, moped thief, homeless thief, struggling unemployed criminals, vain unfaithful wive, workaholic unfaithful husband...

* ThePowerOfLove: A possible explanation behind the loops (and certainly the reason for Lola's desperate attempts to get the money).

* RecycledInSpace: The American independent film ''AndThenCameLola'' is ''Run Lola Run'' [[AC:with lesbians]]!

* ThePowerOfLove: A possible explanation behind the loops (and certainly the reason for Lola's desperate attempts to get the money).

* SheetOfGlass: In the second run, the ambulance Lola tries to hitch a ride on runs through a pane of glass. The delay causes the driver to hurry and [[spoiler:run over Manni in the street.]]

* RecycledINSPACE: The American independent film ''AndThenCameLola'' is ''Run Lola Run'' [[AC:with lesbians]]!

* TooDumbToLive: Manni gives the homeless man he was just holding up his pistol in exchange for the bag of money, without ejecting the clip or even putting the safety on.

''Lola Rennt'' (known as ''Run, Lola, Run'' in English-speaking countries) is a 1998 German film. Unique and varied, the film is difficult to assign to any specific genre. Instead, think of this movie as a video game style exploration of love and fate that blends animation sequences with live footage, except that it's techno, fast, and features a red-haired German woman [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin who spends most of the movie running]].

!!''Lola Rennt'' contains examples of the following tropes:

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The German title "Lola Rennt" translates to "Lola Runs."

Fair warning, here: the plot of ''Lola Rennt'' does not ''at all'' adequately describe the movie; the plot is a MacGuffin in and of itself. Instead, think of this movie as a video game style exploration of love and fate, except that it's techno, fast, and features a red-haired German chick [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin who spends most of the movie running]].

After his girlfriend Lola's scooter is stolen, Manni, a courier for a crime boss, accidentally leaves 100 000 Deutschmarks on the subway, where it's stolen by a homeless man. He's dead if he doesn't bring it in, so he decides to rob a grocery store in order to make up for the loss. He helpfully informs Lola of this 20 minutes beforehand. Lola, whose father is a wealthy banker, decides to see if she can get Manni's money for him.

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[[folder:First loop]]
As Lola leaves her apartment, a dog scares her, causing her to speed up slightly. When she comes to her father's bank, she interrupts her father's mistress just after she tells him that she is pregnant. Her father tells her that he's divorcing her mother and that he is not her real father. Even though she doesn't have the money, Lola decides to leave the bank and go to Manni anyway. She finds him in the process of robbing the grocery store, and decides to help him. The robbery itself goes smoothly, but the two are surrounded by the police as they flee, and a nervous cop shoots Lola during the standoff. Just before she dies, Lola says the word "stop."
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[[folder:Second loop]]
The film then returns to Lola leaving her apartment. This time, a boy trips Lola, causing her to fall down the stairs and slowing her down. Because of her limp, she arrives at the bank slightly later than before, so her father's mistress has had time to admit the child is not in fact his. Lola takes a gun from a security guard and robs the bank (in the first scenario she learnt how to take the safety off a gun, now she knows how to do this). She escapes from the bank after being mistaken for a hostage. She attempts to get a ride from an ambulance, but the driver refuses and, distracted, [[SheetOfGlass runs into a pane of glass that workers were carrying across the street]]. She manages to meet with Manni before the robbery, but the ambulance she tried to hitch a ride on earlier runs Manni over as he crosses the street.
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[[folder:Third loop]]
The film restarts for a final time. Lola scares the dog away as she leaves, but is delayed when she is nearly run over by a car. This minor accident prevents the driver having the more significant accident we saw in the first two runs. Because the driver is not now delayed he arrives at the bank to go for lunch with Lola's father who now leaves the bank before Lola gets there. Lola runs in front of the bicyclist she ignored the previous times, causing him to take a detour, meeting the homeless guy and selling him his bike. The homeless guy then rides past Manni, who starts chasing him. Lola goes to a nearby casino, and bets on 20 in roulette with the last of her money. She wins twice, giving her more than enough money to take care of Manni's problem. She hitches a ride on the ambulance and catches Manni early again. Unbeknown to Lola, Manni has retrieved the stolen money and just delivered it to his boss. The film ends with him crossing the street and asking Lola about her bag of money.
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!! ''Run Lola Run'' contains examples of:
* ActionGirl: Lola.
* AnimatedCreditsOpening

* BigHeroicRun: TheMovie!
* ChekhovsSkill: Zig zagged a little. When Lola takes part in the armed robbery in the first loop, Manni tells her how to turn the safety catch of a gun off. In the second loop she "remembers" this for when she stages her own robbery at the bank.
** Also, Lola's screaming ability, assuming that's what caused her to win at Rouelette.
* CulturalTranslation: The English dub replaces the deutchmarks with dollars.

* DramaticShattering

* {{Flashback}}: There are a few of these involving Lola and Manni having conversations while lying in bed.

* KarmaHoudini: Though they're portrayed as the heroes of the piece, Lola and Manni need the money in the first place as they are both accomplices in what is probably a deal shipping (possibly stolen) Mercedes Benzes to Africa in exchange for illegal blood diamonds (often mined with slave labour). However, in the third loop they get away scot free (and with 100,000 deutchmarks!).

** But Manni gave the homeless man his gun in exchange for the money, and he takes it with a crazed and desperate look in his eyes...

* MagicCountdown

* TheMistress
* MultipleEndings: A non-interactive version.
* OneTrueLove: Both played straight and subverted in the course of the film.
** [[spoiler:if Manni had died of a terminal illness]] "And then a man with these really big green eyes shows up at the door... And he's so super cool and compassionate, and he'll listen to you talk your heart out all night long until your ears drop off ... Then you'd hop into his lap, cross me off your list, and that'll be the end of me!"
*** [[spoiler:without challenging him]] "But Manni... you're not about to die."
* PoliceAreUseless: In the first loop, a police officer accidentally shoots Lola. In the second, the police doesn't bother her... because of their stupidity. (and possibly the fact that Lola doesn't look much like a typical bank robber)

* [[RedHeadedHero Red-Headed Heroine]] / HeroesWantRedheads: Lola
* RuleOfThree
* SexlessMarriage: Lola's 'parents'.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: The second ending.
* SheetOfGlass: In the second run, the ambulance Lola tries to hitch a ride on runs through a pane of glass. The delay causes the driver, presumably, to hurry and run over Manni in the street.

* SplitScreen: Used throughout the film.

* WealthyEverAfter
* XMeetsY: ''Film/GroundhogDay'' as directed by a Teutonic QuentinTarantino.
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Red Hair]]: Lola. A classic case of AuthorAppeal, with the red hair also symbolising passion and vitality.
** Red shows up several times in the film in significant ways: the telephone, the first bag of money, and the flashbacks to Lola and Manni in bed--just to name a few.
** Allegedly, the red hair dye used washed out when Lola's actress showered, and the makeup artists couldn't redye it to match the shade. So they dyed it once, and the actress [[DyeingForYourArt didn't shower for]] [[{{Squick}} the three weeks it took to film the movie]].

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* GroundhogDayLoop: The film's events loop over and over until Lola stops getting the {{Bad Ending}}s.

* RedheadedHero / HeroesWantRedheads: Lola

Fair warning, here: the plot of ''Lola Rennt'' does not ''at all'' adequately describe the movie; the plot is a MacGuffin in and of itself. Instead, think of this movie as a video game style exploration of love and fate, except that it's techno, fast, and features a hot, red-haired German chick [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin who spends most of the movie running]].

* RetroactiveRecognition: Lola is [[TheBourneSeries Marie]].

* ShoutOut: To the movie ''{{Vertigo}}'': the use of spirals and there is also a painting in the casino which was painted to look like the shots of the back of Kim Novak's head.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Lola is [[BourneSeries Marie]].

** [if Manni had died of a terminal illness] "And then a man with these really big green eyes shows up at the door... And he's so super cool and compassionate, and he'll listen to you talk your heart out all night long until your ears drop off ... Then you'd hop into his lap, cross me off your list, and that'll be the end of me!"
*** [without challenging him] "But Manni... you're not about to die."

* SoBadItsGood: The English dub.

* [[ViewersAreMorons Viewers Are Xenophobes]]: The English dub replaces the deutchmarks with dollars, because apparently American audiences can't handle a movie taking place in another country.

The film restarts for a final time. Lola scares the dog away as she leaves, but is delayed when she is nearly run over by a car. This minor accident prevents the driver having the more significant accident we saw in the first two runs. Because the driver is not now delayed he arrives at the bank to go for lunch with Lola's father who now leaves the bank before Lola gets there. Lola runs in front of the bicyclist she ignored the previous times, causing him to take a detour, meeting the homeless guy and selling him his bike. The homeless guy then rides past Manni, who starts chasing him. Lola goes to nearby casino, and bets on 20 in roulette with the last of her money. She wins twice, giving her more than enough money to take care of Manni's problem. She hitches a ride on the ambulance and catches Manni early again. Unbeknown to Lola, Manni has retrieved the stolen money and just delivered it to his boss. The film ends with him crossing the street and asking Lola about her bag of money.

* MagicCountdown:

* PoliceAreUseless: In the first loop, you can't blame the cops. In the second, the police doesn't bother Lola... because of their stupidity.