Shadow of Angels

Shadow of Angels

101 mins | Drama | Sept. 3, 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.

Shadow of Angels

101 mins | Drama | Sept. 3, 1976

Shadow of Angels
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.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Albatros Produktion, Artco-Film
Original title Schatten der Engel
Directors Daniel Schmid
Writers Daniel Schmid, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast

Ingrid Caven

as Lily Brest

Klaus Löwitsch

as Jude

Debria Kalpataru

as Marie-Antoinette

Annemarie Düringer

as Luise Müller

Adrian Hoven

as Herr Müller

Boy Gobert

as Polizeichef

Ulli Lommel

as Der kleine Prinz

Irm Hermann

as Emma

Ila von Hasperg

as Violet

Peter Chatel

as Mann / Thomas

Raúl Gimenez

as Jim

Harry Baer

as Helfritz