THE PRINCESS AND
THE WARRIOR
aka DER KRIEGER UND DIE KAISERIN

Year: 2000
USA: Sony Pictures Classics
UK: Pathe Distribution
Cast: Franka Potente, Benno Furmann, Marita Breuer, Lars Rudolph, Melchior Beslon, Jurgen Tarrach, Ludger Pistor, Natja Brunckhorst, Staffen Schult, Rolf Dannemann, Gottfried Breitfuß, Susanne Bredehöft, Christa Fast, Sybille Jacqueline Schedwill, Stefanie Muhlhahn, Irma Schmitt, Max Urlacher, Thomas Gimbel, Jan Andre Zinnschlag, Alexander Wipprecht, Friederika Frerichs
Director: Tom Tykwer
Country: Germany
Language: German (English subtitles)
USA & UK: 135 mins
USA Rated: R for disturbing images, language and some sexual content
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language, moderate violence and medical horror
USA Release Date: 22 June 2001 (Limited Release - Los Angeles and New York)
UK Release Date: 29 June 2001
(in German)

Synopsis

Somewhere out there love is waiting...

They meet for the first time, after a horrible accident, underneath a truck. The sad and angry Bodo (Benno Furmann), a small time criminal, who is always running from himself as well as the law, and Sissi (Franka Potente), a shy, quiet nurse, who works in in a psychiatric clinic. Bodo saves Sissi's life, which is literally hanging by a thread, then disappears without trace.

Obsessed by the accident, Sissi sets out on a mission to find the mysterious stranger, and to discover whether their paths crossed through simple blind chance or the intricate mechanisms of destiny itself.