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.
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HD
Drama
1976
101 min
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Movie Info:
- Full Name : Shadow of Angels
- Duration : 101 min
- Languages : German
- Writers : Rainer Werner Fassbinder (dialogue), Daniel Schmid (screenplay), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (screenplay)
- Directors : Daniel Schmid min
- Imdb : 7.1 (135 votes)
- Tomatoes : 4.5 (13 votes)
- Actors : Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Annemarie Dèringer, Adrian Hoven
Movie Storyline
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.