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Shadow of Angels

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Original title

Schatten der Engel

Year

1976

Running time

101 min.

Country

Switzerland

Director

Daniel Schmid

Screenwriter

Daniel Schmid, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Play: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast

Music

Gottfried Hüngsberg, Peer Raben

Cinematography

Renato Berta

Producer

Co-production Switzerland-Germany - West Germany (FRG);

Albatross, Artco-Film

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: 1976: Cannes Film Festival: Nominated for Palme d'Or (Best Film)

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Shadow of Angels

1976

Daniel Schmid