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Shadow of Angels
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.
Cast
- Ingrid Caven as Lily Brest
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Raoul
- Klaus Löwitsch as Jude
- Jean-Claude Dreyfus as Zwerg
- Debria Kalpataru as Marie-Antoinette
- Annemarie Düringer as Luise Müller
- Adrian Hoven as Herr Müller
- Boy Gobert as Polizeichef
- Ulli Lommel as Der kleine Prinz
- Irm Hermann as Emma
- Ila von Hasperg as Violet
- Peter Chatel as Mann / Thomas
Details
- Director
- Daniel Schmid
- Released
- September 3, 1976
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Drama
- Studio
- Albatros Produktion and Artco-Film
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 4.4 / 10 from 9 votes
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