Run Lola Run

Media Studies, Film Studies, Moving Image Arts, Modern Foreign Languages (German)

Key Stage 3 (though 15 cert), Key Stage 4, post-15

Berlin punk Lola has 20 minutes to get 100 000 marks to save her boyfriend’s life. The film shows three alternative versions of the action. Exciting music and editing, dramatic camera angles. Try playing just the audio from the title sequence and getting students to guess what the themes are, before you show the video. Good for inspiring student filmmaking.

It’s a 15 certificate mainly because of one violent scene, and there’s quite a lot of swearing (in German).

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