Last Stop Love (1958)

In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of his sentence, there is a driver named Jupp waiting for him. Soon he learns that the famous journalist Cesar Boyd was the responsible for the shorter sentence. Cesar offers a position of his assistant to Greg; in return, Boyd would write his story about his interviews to war criminals and Greg would help him in other matters. Meanwhile Boyd welcomes the daughter of a deceased friend, Bettina, and he becomes her guardian.

Lola, una cantante de cabaret, seduce al señor von Bohm, un delegado de urbanismo. Al honrado funcionario se le plantea un grave conflicto moral cuando descubre que el cabaret es la tapadera de un burdel y las cantantes, prostitutas. Se inspira en 'El ángel azul' de Josef von Sternberg y forma parte de la trilogía de Fassbinder sobre la Alemania de la posguerra junto con 'El matrimonio de Maria Braun' y 'La ansiedad de Veronika Voss'.