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Shadow of Angels(1976)
Status: Released
Date: 1976-09-03
40%
7 Votes
Time: 1h 41m
Overview:
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.
Languages: German.
Countries:
Switzerland,
Germany
ProductionCompanies:
Albatros Produktion
Artco-Film
Movie: Shadow of Angels
Top 10 Billed Cast
Ingrid Caven
Lily Brest
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Raoul
Klaus Löwitsch
Jude
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Zwerg
Annemarie Düringer
Luise Müller
Adrian Hoven
Herr Müller
Ulli Lommel
Der kleine Prinz
Irm Hermann
Emma
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Overview
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
1976-09-03
Average
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