Shadow of Angels
4.0 / 10
101 minutes
1976-09-03
German
CH
Actors :
Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Klaus Löwitsch, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Debria Kalpataru, Annemarie Düringer, Adrian Hoven, Boy Gobert, Ulli Lommel, Irm Hermann, Ila von Hasperg, Peter Chatel, Raúl Gimenez, Harry Baer, Gail Curtis
Description
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.