Nella Germania occidentale del dopoguerra, l'affascinante Von Bohm è nominato nuovo commissario per l'edilizia di una città. La sua moralità viene messa alla prova quando si innamora di Lola... Leggi tuttoNella Germania occidentale del dopoguerra, l'affascinante Von Bohm è nominato nuovo commissario per l'edilizia di una città. La sua moralità viene messa alla prova quando si innamora di Lola, l'amante di un uomo corrotto.Nella Germania occidentale del dopoguerra, l'affascinante Von Bohm è nominato nuovo commissario per l'edilizia di una città. La sua moralità viene messa alla prova quando si innamora di Lola, l'amante di un uomo corrotto.
- Premi
- 4 vittorie e 1 candidatura in totale
- Timmerding
- (as Karl Heinz von Hassel)
Trama
Lo sapevi?
- QuizPart of the BRD Trilogy along with Il matrimonio di Maria Braun (1979) and 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.
- BlooperThe 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.
- ConnessioniEdited into Großes Herz und große Klappe - Helga Feddersen (2001)
- Colonne sonoreUnter fremden Sternen
Lyrics by Aldo von Pinelli
Composed by Lotar Olias
(p) 1959 Polydor
Performed by Freddy Quinn
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 dic 2008
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- Budget
- 3.500.000 DEM (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 8.144 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 11.623 USD
- 16 feb 2003
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 9.330 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 55 minuti
- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 1.66 : 1