Lola
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West Germany · 1981
Rated R · 1h 53m
Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Starring Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf, Matthias Fuchs
Genre Drama, Romance
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Lola is a cabaret singer in West Germany after WWII, looking to advance herself within the booming postwar economy. Her town is rife with corruption, and Lola uses her charm to pit a corrupt property developer against the new high-minded and principled building commissioner, all cogs in a town drowning in deceit.
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