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|Germany August 20, 1981
flagicon|USA August 4, 1982
runtime = 113 min
language = German
budget =
amg_id = 1:99970
imdb_id = 0082671

"Lola" is a 1981 West German film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It is the third in his BRD 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 local construction 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 of marriage. 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

*Barbara Sukowa – Lola
*Armin Mueller-Stahl – Von Bohm
*Mario Adorf – Schukert
*Matthias Fuchs – Esslin

ee also

*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]