Shadow of Angels
- Original title
- Schatten der Engel
- Year
- 1976
- Running time
- 101 min.
- Country
- Switzerland
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Ingrid Caven
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Annemarie Düringer
- Adrian Hoven
- Boy Gobert
- Ulli Lommel
- Irm Hermann
- Debria Kalpataru
- Hans Gratzer
- Ila von Hasperg
- Peter Chatel
- Gail Curtis
- Christine Jirku
- Harry Baer
- Klaus Löwitsch
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production Switzerland-Germany - West Germany (FRG);
- Genre
- Drama
- Movie Groups
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder Adaptations
- Synopsis
- 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.
- Awards
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1976: Cannes Film Festival: Nominated for Palme d'Or (Best Film)
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