Lola

Name: Lola
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Genre: Drama
Released: 1981-08-20
Rating: 6.919

Film19811h 53mReleased

Drama

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Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Language: German
Released: 1981-08-20
Runtime: 1h 53m

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6.9136 votes on TMDB

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6.6

The story

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.