Shadow of Angels (1976)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

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

Director & Crew

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