Shadow of Angels
- Released on
- Runtime
- 101 mins
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.
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
- 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
- Gail Curtis
- Christine Jirku
- Alexander Allerson
Director
- Daniel Schmid
Producers
- Jordan Bojilov
- Michael Fengler
Screenwriter
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Daniel Schmid