Lola (1981 film)

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1981 film

Lola

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Directed by| Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Written by|

* Peter Märthesheimer
* Pea Fröhlich
* Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Produced by| Horst Wendlandt
Starring|

* Barbara Sukowa
* Armin Mueller-Stahl
* Mario Adorf

Cinematography| Xaver Schwarzenberger
Edited by| Juliane Lorenz
Music by| Peer Raben

Production
companies

* Rialto Film
* Trio Film

Distributed by| Tobis

Release date

* 20 August 1981 (1981-08-20) (West Germany)

Running time

| 113 minutes
Country| West Germany
Language| German

Lola is a 1981 West German drama film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the third in his BRD Trilogy, following The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978) and Veronika Voss (1982). It is a loose adaptation of Heinrich Mann's Professor Unrat (1905), which had previously been adapted for Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel (1930).

## Plot[edit]

In 1957, in the town of Coburg, as in most of West Germany, reconstruction is the watchword, and Coburg's élite all benefit: the mayor, the police chief, the bank president, the newspaper editor and above all, Schuckert, a property developer who owns the brothel the other men frequent. His favourite employee is its singer, Lola.

This cosy arrangement is threatened by the arrival of the high-minded and cultured von Bohm, a refugee from East Prussia, as the new building commissioner. Divorced, he hires a woman with a young granddaughter as his housekeeper and devotes himself to his new job. One day, while he is out at work, his housekeeper shows her daughter his house. It is Lola, who decides she wants to know this interesting man and soon attracts his attention under her real name, Marie-Luise. Unaware of her night job or that Schuckert is her daughter's father, von Bohm proposes to her, but she warns him off. When he is finally taken to the brothel, he discovers the truth about her.

In the meantime von Bohm has been collecting evidence of Coburg's widespread corruption, including building permits masterminded by Schuckert, and decides to put a stop to it, but nobody is interested. Unable to change the system, and still in love with Lola, he marries her with Schuckert's blessing. As a wedding gift, Schuckert gives the pair the deed to the brothel and, while von Bohm is taking a walk after the church ceremony, takes the bride to bed.

## Cast[edit]

* Barbara Sukowa as Lola
* Armin Mueller-Stahl as Von Bohm
* Mario Adorf as Schukert
* Matthias Fuchs as Esslin
* Helga Feddersen as Miss Hettich
* Karin Baal as Lola's mother
* Ivan Desny as Wittich
* Elisabeth Volkmann as Gigi
* Hark Bohm as Völker
* Karl-Heinz von Hassel as Timmerding
* Rosel Zech as Mrs. Schuckert
* Christine Kaufmann as Susi
* Y Sa Lo as Rosa
* Günther Kaufmann as G.I.
* Isolde Barth as Mrs. Völker
* Karsten Peters as editor
* Harry Baer as first demonstrator
* Rainer Will as second demonstrator
* Sonja Neudorfer as Mrs. Fink
* Nino Korda as TV delivery man
* Herbert Steinmetz as doorman
* Udo Kier as waiter (uncredited)

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## External links[edit]

* Lola at IMDb
* Lola at AllMovie
* The Candy-Colored Amorality of the Fifties: Lola Production History an essay by Michael Töteberg at the Criterion Collection

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Works by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Films|

* Love Is Colder Than Death (1969)
* Katzelmacher (1969)
* Gods of the Plague (1970)
* Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)
* The American Soldier (1970)
* Whity (1971)
* Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
* The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971)
* The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
* Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
* Effi Briest (1974)
* Fear of Fear (1975)
* Fox and His Friends (1975)
* Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (1975)
* Satan's Brew (1976)
* Chinese Roulette (1976)
* Germany in Autumn (1978)
* Despair (1978)
* In a Year of 13 Moons (1978)
* The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
* The Third Generation (1979)
* Lili Marleen (1981)
* Lola (1981)
* Veronika Voss (1982)
* Querelle (1982)

Television|

* The Niklashausen Journey (1970)
* Rio das Mortes (1971)
* Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (1972–1973)
* Jail Bait [de] (1972)
* World on a Wire (1973)
* Martha (1974)
* I Only Want You to Love Me (1976)
* The Stationmaster's Wife (1977)
* Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980, series)

Related|

* BRD Trilogy
* Enfant Terrible (2020 biopic)
* Fassbinder's Women (2000 documentary)

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