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Shadow of Angels
directed by Daniel Schmid
19761h 41m★ 3.8
Drama
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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.
cast
Ingrid Caven
Lily Brest
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Raoul
Klaus Löwitsch
Jude
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Zwerg
D
Debria Kalpataru
Marie-Antoinette
Annemarie Düringer
Luise Müller
Adrian Hoven
Herr Müller
B
Boy Gobert
Polizeichef
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Director
Daniel Schmid
Language
German
