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Shadow of Angels

Directed by Daniel Schmid
1976    1h 41m
6.4
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.
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Cast of Shadow of Angels
  • Ingrid CavenLily Brest
  • Rainer Werner FassbinderRaoul
  • Klaus LöwitschJude
  • Jean-Claude DreyfusZwerg
  • Debria KalpataruMarie-Antoinette
  • Annemarie DüringerLuise Müller
  • Adrian HovenHerr Müller
  • Boy GobertPolizeichef
  • Ulli LommelDer kleine Prinz
  • Irm HermannEmma
  • Ila von HaspergViolet
  • Peter ChatelMann / Thomas
  • Raúl GimenezJim
  • Harry BaerHelfritz
  • Gail Curtis
  • Christine Jirku
  • Alexander Allerson

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