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Der Krieger und die Kaiserin (The princess and the warrior)

(2000)

Hey, wait a minute: I don't know much German, but I know enough to recognize that they've reversed the nouns in the English title. I guess it's just for sound: "the warrior and the princess" is less mellifluous.

It would be an exaggeration to say that this film falls short of Lola rennt because Franka Potente's hair isn't the same unnatural red, but the facts are: it's blond, and she's relatively bland. A bigger problem with the film is genre overload: it's a heist film, it's a psychological thriller, it's an exercise in guilt expiation, it's a cuckoo's nest dramady, it's a ghost story, and eventually it's a love-on-the-lam caper. Not a bad film, but a classic MITG (more interesting than good).