Shadow of Angels
Overview
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.
Release date
03/09/1976
Votes
9
Popularity
1.3
Ingrid Caven
Lily Brest
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Raoul
Klaus Löwitsch
Jude
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Zwerg
Debria Kalpataru
Marie-Antoinette
Annemarie Düringer
Luise Müller
Adrian Hoven
Herr Müller
Boy Gobert
Polizeichef
Ulli Lommel
Der kleine Prinz
Irm Hermann
Emma
Ila von Hasperg
Violet
Peter Chatel
Mann / Thomas
Raúl Gimenez
Jim
Harry Baer
Helfritz
Gail Curtis
Christine Jirku
Alexander Allerson
Original Soundtrack
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The Remains of the Day
Gloomy Sunday
Au Revoir les Enfants
Tevye's Daughters
Train of Life
An American Pickle
A Serious Man
Himmo, King of Jerusalem
Farewell Baghdad
The Prince of Egypt
Witness Out of Hell
An American Tail
The Actress
Awake and Sing!
Avalon
The Diary of Anne Frank
Jesus
Shabbat Dinner
The Jazz Singer
Lucky Number Slevin