Lola

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.

• corruption
• based on novel or book
• sexual obsession
• capitalism
• bavaria, germany
• coburg
• femme fatale
• post war germany
• mistress
• prostitution
• the miracle on the rhine
• adenauer
• whorehouse
• cabaret performer
• west germany
• cabaret singer
• systemic corruption
• moral corruption
• corrupted hero
• property developer