Shadow of Angels

Shadow of Angels — Plot

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.

• Release date
• September 3, 1976
• Runtime
• 101 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Daniel Schmid

Shadow of Angels — 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