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  • Shadow of Angels (1976)
  • 101 min | Drama
Shadow of Angels (1976)
101 min | Drama

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 ...See moreBeautiful, 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. Written by See less
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Director
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder (dialogue) (screenplay) | Daniel Schmid (screenplay)
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Jun 1983 (United States)

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18 cast members
Name Known for
Ingrid Caven
Lily Brest Lily Brest   See fewer
Annemarie Düringer
Luise Müller Luise Müller   See fewer
Adrian Hoven
Herr Müller, ihr Mann Herr Müller, ihr Mann   See fewer
Boy Gobert
Chief of Police: Mülller II Chief of Police: Mülller II   See fewer
Ulli Lommel
Der kleine Prinz / Little Prince Der kleine Prinz / Little Prince   See fewer
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Zwerg / Dwarf (as Jean-Claude Dreyfuss) Zwerg / Dwarf (as Jean-Claude Dreyfuss)   See fewer
Debria Kalpataru
Marie-Antoinette Marie-Antoinette   See fewer
Peter Chatel
Mann / Thomas Mann / Thomas   See fewer
Raúl Gimenez
Jim (as Raul Gimenez) Jim (as Raul Gimenez)   See fewer
Alexander Allerson
Hans von Gluck Hans von Gluck   See fewer
Harry Baer
Helfritz Helfritz   See fewer
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