Lola

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). 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 w... more

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). 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... less