Word: hlich
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LOLA and VERONIKA VOSS Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder Screenplays by Peter Märthesheimer and Pea Fröhlich...
Nonetheless, in film after profligate film he described the fatal charm of the bourgeoisie for any working-class striver, or anyone too idealistic to recognize its strangling power. In 1978 Fassbinder was lucky enough to find a pair of screenwriters, Peter Märthesheimer and Pea Fröhlich, who set this theme in '50s Germany, and retooled it with more dexterity than Fassbinder had shown in his own scripts. The result of this collaboration was a trilogy-Maria Braun (1979), Lola (1981) and Veronika Voss (1982)-that blended movie melodramas with acerbic sociology, and revealed the curse behind...