Drama
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.
Directed by
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Hark Bohm
Volker
Ivan Desny
Wittich
Udo Kier
Waiter (uncredited)
Matthias Fuchs
Esslin
Armin Mueller-Stahl
von Bohm
Rosel Zech
Frau Schuckert
Günther Kaufmann
GI
Karin Baal
Lola's Mother
Isolde Barth
Frau Völker
Christine Kaufmann
Susi
Mario Adorf
Schuckert
Barbara Sukowa
Lola
Rainer Will
2nd Demonstrator
Freddy Quinn
Karl-Heinz von Hassel
Timmerding
Harry Baer
1st Demonstrator
Elisabeth Volkmann
Gigi
Helga Feddersen
Fräulein Hettich
Andrea Heuer
Librarian (uncredited)
Sonja Neudorfer
Frau Fink
Y Sa Lo
Rosa
Karsten Peters
Editor
Herbert Steinmetz
Concierge
Nino Korda
TV Delivery Man
Raúl Gimenez
1st Waiter (uncredited)
Maxim Oswald
Grandfather Berger (uncredited)
Helmut Petigk
Bouncer (uncredited)
Marita Pleyer
Rahel (uncredited)
Ulrike Vigo
Little Marie (uncredited)
Michael McLernon

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