Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, English, Subtitled
What are you waiting for? Getting there is all the fun in this sunny, award-winning romantic comedy about following and finding your destiny. Moritz Bleibtreu (Run Lola Run) stars as Daniel, a shy Hamburg student teacher who impulsively resolves to follow a beautiful tourist he just met to Istanbul. His hapless odyssey is complicated by the irrepressible Juli (Christiane Paul), a street vendor who sold him an enchanted ring she guaranteed would help him find his true love. Through many mishaps and detours, Daniel's wayward journey is a wild ride that the San Francisco Chronicle hailed, "Evokes road movies from It Happened One Night to Planes, Trains and Automobiles."
"So unambiguously good-natured it feels like something fresh." Desson Howe, Washington Post
Editor's Note
Daniel (Moritz Bleibtreu, DAS EXPERIMENT, RUN LOLA RUN) is a shy and lovelorn science teacher in Hamburg, Germany. Juli (Christiane Paul) is a dread-locked, free-spirited Hamburg street vendor. They cross paths when Juli sells Daniel a sun-inscribed ring and tells him he will soon fall in love with a woman wearing a similar symbol--with the secret hope that she herself will be that woman. But before Juli can fully orchestrate her romantic plans, Daniel meets a beautiful Turkish tourist and determines to follow her to Istanbul. It isn't long before Daniel embarks on a cross-country trip around the backroads of Eastern Europe in search of love--with a hitchhiking Juli not far behind. Written and directed by Fatih Akin, this German romantic comedy blends well-worn elements of slapstick, chance encounters, and an ensemble cast of eccentric characters into a surprisingly sweet and original cinematic creation.
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