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Cast

Ingrid Caven

Ingrid Caven

Lily Brest

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Raoul

Klaus Löwitsch

Klaus Löwitsch

Jude

Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Zwerg

Debria Kalpataru

Debria Kalpataru

Marie-Antoinette

Annemarie Düringer

Annemarie Düringer

Luise Müller

Adrian Hoven

Adrian Hoven

Herr Müller

Boy Gobert

Boy Gobert

Polizeichef

Ulli Lommel

Ulli Lommel

Der kleine Prinz

Irm Hermann

Irm Hermann

Emma

Ila von Hasperg

Ila von Hasperg

Violet

Peter Chatel

Peter Chatel

Mann / Thomas

Raúl Gimenez

Raúl Gimenez

Jim

Harry Baer

Harry Baer

Helfritz

Gail Curtis

Gail Curtis

Christine Jirku

Christine Jirku

Alexander Allerson

Alexander Allerson

Crew

Daniel Schmid

Daniel Schmid

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Screenplay

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Theatre Play

Michael Fengler

Michael Fengler

Producer

Gera Graf

Gera Graf

Costume Design

Gunther Kortwich

Gunther Kortwich

Sound

Jordan Bojilov

Jordan Bojilov

Producer

Daniel Schmid

Daniel Schmid

Screenplay

Renato Berta

Renato Berta

Director of Photography

Ila von Hasperg

Ila von Hasperg

Editor

Raúl Gimenez

Raúl Gimenez

Set Designer

Gottfried Hüngsberg

Gottfried Hüngsberg

Original Music Composer

Peer Raben

Peer Raben

Original Music Composer

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Shadow of Angels

19764.0 / 10101 min
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.