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The Princess and the Warrior is a film of genre Drama directed by Tom Tykwer released in USA on 27 april 2001 with Franka Potente

The Princess and the Warrior (2000)

The Princess and the Warrior
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Released in USA 27 april 2001
Length 2h15
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating73% 3.6973253.6973253.6973253.6973253.697325

The Princess and the Warrior (German: Der Krieger und die Kaiserin, literally "The Warrior and the Empress") is a 2000 German drama film written and directed by Tom Tykwer with Franka Potente, star of his previous movie Run Lola Run (Lola rennt), in a leading role. It follows the life of Sissi, a psychiatric hospital nurse and Bodo (Benno Fürmann), an anguished former soldier who lapses into criminality, but allows other characters (such as Bodo's brother Walter and select patients from the hospital) equal time for development. We see how Sissi's routine life is skewed by a near-death experience and her subsequent relationship with Bodo.

Synopsis

The film begins with a letter to Sissi, a nurse in a psychiatric hospital, asking her for help in wrapping up the affairs of a friend's dead mother. Sissi cares for her patients to the effect that they appear to be her extended family (in fact, she states that her own father is a patient in the hospital). As such, she has little experience of life outside the hospital. Meanwhile, Bodo, living with his brother, applies for a funerary job but is quickly dismissed because of his inability to control his emotions. He later robs a grocery store and during the ensuing chase indirectly causes a truck to hit Sissi. Taking cover from the police underneath the truck, Bodo finds Sissi, who cannot speak or breathe. In order to save her life, he performs an emergency tracheotomy. Once Sissi is in medical care, they are separated without Sissi ever learning his name.

Actors

Franka Potente

(Simone 'Sissi' Schmidt)
Benno Fürmann

(Bodo Riemer)
Natja Brunckhorst

(Meike)
Joachim Król

(Walter Riemer)
Ludger Pistor

(Werner Dürr)
Sebastian Schipper
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