- Lola (1981 film)
Infobox_Film
name = Lola
writer =Rainer Werner Fassbinder ,Pea Fröhlich ,Peter Märthesheimer
starring =Barbara Sukowa ,Armin Mueller-Stahl ,Mario Adorf
director =Rainer Werner Fassbinder
producer =Horst Wendlandt
distributor =United Artists Classics (US theatrical)
Criterion (Region 1 DVD)
released = flagicon|GermanyAugust 20 ,1981
flagicon|USAAugust 4 ,1982
runtime = 113 min
language = German
budget =
amg_id = 1:99970
imdb_id = 0082671"Lola" is a 1981
West German film directed byRainer Werner Fassbinder . It is the third in hisBRD Trilogy : the previous films are "The Marriage of Maria Braun " (BRD 1) and "Veronika Voss " (BRD 2).Plot
The film is set in
1955 in capitalist post-World War II West Germany . Schuckert is a localconstruction entrepreneur whose methods of gaining wealth include shady business practices such as bribing the local officials. His latest grand scheme is endangered with an arrival of von Bohm, a new un-corruptible, high minded building commissioner. Von Bohm tries to go for gradual change of the system from within, rather than exposing the participants. Meanwhile he gradually falls in love with a beautiful woman named Lola. They are attracted to each other and von Bohm starts thinking ofmarriage . When von Bohm finds her to be a cabaret singer/prostitute in a local brothel with most of von Bohm's adversaries as her clients and a 'personal toy' of Schuckert's, he collects evidence against Schuckert to blow up the ring of corruption. But since the community has benefited from the shady capitalism so far, no one cares. Von Bohm is incorporated into the system by having been given Lola from Schuckert. It is implied that Lola now runs the Brothel where things continue as before.Main cast
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Barbara Sukowa – Lola
*Armin Mueller-Stahl – Von Bohm
*Mario Adorf – Schukert
*Matthias Fuchs – Esslinee also
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List of German language films External links
*imdb title|id=0082671|title=Lola
* [http://seul-le-cinema.blogspot.com/2007/12/1218-lola.html Review by Ed Howard at Only The Cinema]
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