Shadow of Angels

Shadow of Angels

Released on
Drama
Runtime
101 mins
(7 votes)

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

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