Lola
Lola
Monday, October 25 at 8:45pm | Castro Theatre, San Francisco 
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The 15th Anniversary Berlin & Beyond Film Festival is honored to bring back to the big screen: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's vivid and captivating film Lola: Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute (Barbara Sukowa) exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor (Mario Adorf) against the new straight-arrow building commissioner (Armin Mueller-Stahl), 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.
Surprise Classic Film
Germany (1981), 35mm, 113min; in German with English subtitles
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Producers: Wolf-Dietrich Brücker, Hanns Eckelkamp, Horst Wendlandt
Screenwriters: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pea Fröhlich, Peter Märthesheimer
Cinematographer: Xaver Schwarzenberger
Editor: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Juliane Lorenz
Music: Freddy Quinn, Peer Raben
Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf, Matthias Fuchs, Helga Feddersen
Production: Rialto Film, Trio Film, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
Print courtesy of: Janus Films www.janusfilms.com
About Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder was born in 1945 and died in 1982. He was one of the most significant directors of the “New German Cinema”. In just 13 years, between 1969 and 1982, he made 44 films, including Katzelmacher (1969), The Merchant of Four Seasons (Der Händler der vier Jahreszeiten, 1971), The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant, 1972), Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf, 1973), Fontane Effi Briest (1974), Despair (1978), The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun, 1979), Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), Lili Marleen (1981), Lola (1981), and Querelle (1982), among others. He wrote 14 plays, revised six others and directed 25. He wrote four radio plays and 37 screenplays and worked on a further 13 scripts with other writers. Fassbinder's films are among the most valid social documents produced between the late 60s and early 80s in Germany; his plays are among the most performed of any post-war German dramatist.
