| Winter Sleepers | 
| Director: Tom Tykwer
Actors: Ulrich Matthes, Marie-lou Sellem, Floriane Daniel, Heino Ferch, Josef Bierbichler
Studio: WinStar Cinema
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (21 reviews)
Sales Rank: 57898
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: German (Original Language)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 124 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: D5255D
ISBN: 1572529695
UPC: 720917525525
EAN: 9781572529694
ASIN: B00004Y7CY
Release Date: November 7, 2000
Theatrical Release Date: 1997
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Tom Tykwer, writer-director of the international hit Run Lola Run, shows a more pensive side with Winter Sleepers. The film examines the lives of five characters in the aftermath of an auto accident. As with Run Lola Run, Tykwer's main concern is with chance and coincidence, and the ways people unwittingly influence the course of each other's lives. Theo, a farmer, sets off to take his horse to the vet, unaware that his daughter is hidden in the trailer. Momentarily distracted, Theo swerves to avoid a sports car coming the other way and crashes into a mountain slope, critically injuring his daughter. The sports car is covered by snow, and Rene, the driver, digs his way out and leaves the scene. Meanwhile translator Rebecca negotiates a stormy-but-sexy relationship with loutish ski instructor Marco, both of them unaware that Marco's stolen car was involved in the crash, and Rebecca's roommate Laura nurses the young accident victim by day and begins a tentative relationship with Rene by night. While Winter Sleepers doesn't have the same manic pace as Lola, Tykwer's visual style is very much in evidence--he makes beautiful images of everything from the snow-covered Bavarian mountains to a cut finger. As it moves through a series of tiny but crucial events to a truly haunting ending, Winter Sleepers is in many ways reminiscent of Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter, both in its central plot device and in its melancholy atmosphere of fatal inevitability. --Ali Davis
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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
 Twisted fun~ January 6, 2009
It's a gritty movie w/ raw passion and emotions and humanism. I like it!
Quick delivery and in good shape, thanks!
 Wnter Sleepers January 21, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
winter sleepers is a good movie but kind of weird. I liked it ok and i can recomend it to german movie fans, especially "Heino Ferch" fans.
beautifully done September 2, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
a great looking film about characters whose lives keep affecting eachother in ways that they themselves seem to be oblivious to. a film about twists of fate, winter sleepers is at parts slow and probably too clever at times for its own good, but none of this really matters. the film is hauntingly beautiful to look at, with amazing scenery, music , and atmosphere. great performances as well. just a well done, pretty film that deserves way more attention than it has received.
Not another "Run Lola Run" August 20, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a different Tom Tykwer than I had seen in the past. "Winter Sleepers" is just as intense as "Run Lola Run" - but the intensity is unspoken - not an in-your-face adrenaline rush like "Lola."
Tykwer is the world's best living director June 30, 2005
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is the film where you can watch Tykwer in action before he even understood his style. Nothing is as sharp as Heaven or the Princess and he indulges himself in whatever formal style he feels is appropriate to the scene. It's like the best film school class exercise I've ever had. He is remarkable.
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