
Shadow of Angels
Drama
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.
Top Cast


Ingrid Caven
Ingrid Caven
Lily Brest
Ingrid Caven
Lily Brest


Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Raoul
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Raoul


Klaus Löwitsch
Klaus Löwitsch
Jude
Klaus Löwitsch
Jude


Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Zwerg
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Zwerg
Debria Kalpataru
Debria Kalpataru
Marie-Antoinette
Debria Kalpataru
Marie-Antoinette


Annemarie Düringer
Annemarie Düringer
Luise Müller
Annemarie Düringer
Luise Müller


Adrian Hoven
Adrian Hoven
Herr Müller
Adrian Hoven
Herr Müller
Boy Gobert
Boy Gobert
Polizeichef
Boy Gobert
Polizeichef


Ulli Lommel
Ulli Lommel
Der kleine Prinz
Ulli Lommel
Der kleine Prinz


Irm Hermann
Irm Hermann
Emma
Irm Hermann
Emma
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