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 Breitfu�, 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.