Lola

Introducing herself to new city official Von Bohm (Armin Mueller-Stahl), "entertainer" Lola (Barbara Sukowa) strides across the square of Coburg, (West) Germany, confronting his landlady, her mother (Karin Baal), and meeting the American G-I (Gunther Kaufmann), in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Lola, 1981.

Karin Baal, playing the mother of the title character (Barbara Sukowa, not seen), has her first proper visit with her new boarder, the new building commissioner in town, Von Bohm (Armin Mueller-Stahl), (West) Germany in 1957, in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Lola, 1981.

Opening scene from director Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the second film in his "BRD" trilogy, Barbara Sukowa the title character, Matthias Fuchs as companion Esslin, Mario Adorf as Schuckert, Karl Bohm "The Mayor," set in the German city of Coburg in 1957, Lola, 1981.