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The Marriage of Maria Braun
Why this pick
Fassbinder's first postwar West Germany melodrama shares Lola's acidic view of reconstruction, where romantic survival and economic ambition become inseparable.
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MOVIE1981 1h 53m DEU
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Why this pick
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The Damned
Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1957 in the town of Coburg, as in most of West Germany, reconstruction is the watchword, and the élite of Coburg all benefit: the mayor, the police chief, the bank president, the newspaper editor and most of all, Shuckert. He is a property developer and also owns the town brothel which the other men frequent, his favourite worker being its singer Lola.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Ivan Desny
Wittich
Elisabeth Volkmann
Gigi
Günther Kaufmann
GI
Isolde Barth
Armin Mueller-Stahl
von Bohm
Barbara Sukowa
Lola
Mario Adorf
Schuckert
Matthias Fuchs
Esslin