Von Bohm wird zum neuen Baukommissar einer Stadt ernannt. Seine Moral wird auf die Probe gestellt, als er sich unwissentlich in die Bordellarbeiterin Lola, die bezahlte Geliebte eines korrup... Alles lesenVon Bohm wird zum neuen Baukommissar einer Stadt ernannt. Seine Moral wird auf die Probe gestellt, als er sich unwissentlich in die Bordellarbeiterin Lola, die bezahlte Geliebte eines korrupten Bauträgers, verliebt.Von Bohm wird zum neuen Baukommissar einer Stadt ernannt. Seine Moral wird auf die Probe gestellt, als er sich unwissentlich in die Bordellarbeiterin Lola, die bezahlte Geliebte eines korrupten Bauträgers, verliebt.
- Auszeichnungen
- 4 Gewinne & 1 Nominierung insgesamt
- Timmerding
- (as Karl Heinz von Hassel)
None of the characters are likable they are all seedy local politicians, after all, but they slowly grow on us. Schukert, in particular takes some getting used to. Fassbinder takes delight in showing us that everyone is corrupt even apparently incorruptible people. Everyone has a weakness, which is their price. Both money and desire corrupts and debases it's inevitable - you might as well be practical about it, take pity on yourself and embrace it. In particular, corruption is the price of having eroticism in the world and that's something we can't do without.
As the film goes along, the darkish tone gives way to levity once you realise that nobody is really going to get hurt. There are some genuinely pensive and romantic moments as well as some fairly gently humour - Von Bohm's neurotic secretary is quite funny. Very little is convincing though - particularly the Von Bohm's infatuation (he seems a little too old, and a little too naive) and the outcome is even less so. There's very little reliable sociology going on here. Women are viewed as chattels and Lola herself is not really given an adequate personality nor was Barbara Sukowa noteworthy in the part.
It's worth watching if only for it's striking visual design. The film is lit throughout in lurid primary colours even outside in broad daylight faces are bathed in coloured light. Perhaps these colours spread outwardly from the nightclub's red light, diffracting through the ordinary world into rainbow hues. It is sometimes intrusive, but mainly effective and attractive.
Fassbinder has extracted one aspect of social behaviour and amplified it to absurdity here. This is not the way the world is, but is perhaps the way he would like it to be: fallible and corrupt, but erotic and benign.
- federovsky
- 20. Dez. 2008
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Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesPart of the BRD Trilogy along with Die Ehe der Maria Braun (1979) and Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (1982). "BRD" stands for Bundesrepublik Deutschland, the official name of West Germany and of the united contemporary Germany, period in which those three stories takes place.
- PatzerThe photograph above the mayor's desk shows downtown Houston, Texas as it looked in the 1960s. The film is set in the late 1950s.
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Lola: Did you love your wife very much?
Von Bohm: I don't really know, perhaps. I came back from the war, and told myself: That's the woman I really love, otherwise I wouldn't have married her. But I didn't feel love. It was just... like the memory of love... Then she told me there was someone else, and for the first time since being back, I really felt something. Not love, but pain. I was thankful to my wife for teaching me how to feel again, even if it was pain.
- VerbindungenEdited into Großes Herz und große Klappe - Helga Feddersen (2001)
- SoundtracksUnter fremden Sternen
Lyrics by Aldo von Pinelli
Composed by Lotar Olias
(p) 1959 Polydor
Performed by Freddy Quinn
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- Budget
- 3.500.000 DM (geschätzt)
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 8.144 $
- Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
- 11.623 $
- 16. Feb. 2003
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 9.330 $
- Laufzeit1 Stunde 55 Minuten
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- Seitenverhältnis
- 1.66 : 1