Shadow of Angels
1976·Switzerland·101 min.
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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.
DirectorDaniel Schmid
CinematographyRenato Berta
CastIngrid Caven·Rainer Werner Fassbinder·Annemarie Düringer·Adrian Hoven·Boy Gobert·Ulli Lommel·Irm Hermann·Debria Kalpataru·Hans Gratzer·Ila von Hasperg·Peter Chatel·Gail Curtis·Christine Jirku·Harry Baer·Klaus LöwitschShow all
Original titleSchatten der Engel