Shadow of Angels
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Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend, Raoul, who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, so she's soon busy. Raoul imagines grotesque sex scenes between Lily and the Jew; he leaves her for a man. Her parents, a bitter Fascist who is a cabaret singer in drag and her wheelchair-bound mother, offer no refuge. Even though all have a philosophical bent, the other whores reject Lily because she tolerates everyone, including men. She tires of her lonely life and looks for a way out. Even that act serves the local corrupt powers.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1976-09-03
Runtime: 101 mins
Director: Daniel Schmid
Spoken language: Deutsch
Genres: Drama
Original title: Shadow of Angels
Production Companies: Albatros Produktion, Artco-Film
Production Countries: Switzerland, Germany
Cast
Ingrid Caven
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Klaus Löwitsch
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Debria Kalpataru
Annemarie Düringer
Adrian Hoven
Boy Gobert
Ulli Lommel
Irm Hermann
Ila von Hasperg
Peter Chatel
Raúl Gimenez
Harry Baer
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