Film · Drama
Shadow of Angels (1976)
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.
- Director
- Daniel Schmid
- Writers
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Daniel Schmid
- Country
- Switzerland, Germany
- Language
- German
- Release date
- September 3, 1976
- Original title
- Schatten der Engel
Shadow of Angels was released on September 3, 1976.
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Shadow of Angels cast
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
