Books about Tom Tykwer's films aim to revive the screen experience in the readers. It is not enough to simply print the script, even though Tom Tykwer is fascinated with the written word as the basic form of a film: "Sometimes you can be reading dry, descriptive words and simultaneously recall the images from the film - and notice what a leap it is from the words to the film. But at the same time, you really know that everything is already contained in the words."

Besides the written words, it is also the images from the shoot - both on set and behind the scenes - which bring the film experience back to life.

Also published: a biographical story book by Tykwer on the cameraman Michael Ballhaus: "Flying Eye".

The books listed are available in bookshops. For online orders the link is under "Products".

Belleville Verlag 2004.
104 pages, EUR 17.–
ISBN 3-936298-48-3

Ten minutes short, but a "fantastic treatment of sight and the cinema, told in a musically fast motion rhythm. It's got everything: humour, poetry, happiness, desperation, and a wonderful punch line." ("Die Welt" newspaper) An unusual book to accompany an unusual film: landscape format, a rush of coloured images. Appendix: Tom Tykwer on life crises and the pain of separation, Paris, Natalie Portman and "True".
Available from April.

Berlin Verlag 2002.
262 Pages, EUR 24,–
ISBN 3-8270-0460-8

A look behind the scenes of film-making, which brings the magic of cinema to life. The 50 hour conversation spans Ballhaus' work with Rainer Werner Fassbinder to Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York". With hundreds of photos and an extensive filmography.

Belleville Verlag 2002.
128 Pages, EUR 14,–
ISBN 3-936298-13-0

"Just at the right moment, you have to do what nobody is expecting." Tom Tykwer filmed a script by Kieslowski, which is published here for the first time. With storyboard drawings, photos from the film and the shoot, and appendix interviews with Mathilde Bonnefoy and Tom Tykwer.

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Rowohlt Verlag 2000. rororo-Taschenbuch 22825.
144 Pages, EUR 10,50
ISBN 3-499-22825-4

"Somewhere out there, love is waiting." The book on the film includes the complete script, photos and an extensive making-of section. Set photos, biographies from Franka Potente, Benno Fürmann and Joachim Król, and an in-depth interview with Tom Tykwer.

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Rowohlt Verlag 1998. rororo-Taschenbuch 22455
144 Pages, EUR 7,50
ISBN 3-499-22455-0

'Run Lola Run' is a fast, vigorous game, a love story and an action film. The book is as racy and unconventional as the film: put together from pictures and texts, with a flip-book and a mini-CD.

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