Shadow of Angels

Name: Shadow of Angels
Director: Daniel Schmid
Genre: Drama
Released: 1976-09-03

Film19761h 41mReleased

Drama

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Director: Daniel Schmid
Language: German
Released: 1976-09-03
Runtime: 1h 41m

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4.49 votes on TMDB

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6.3

The story

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.