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Shadow of Angels (1976)

Shadow of Angels (1976)

Drama
Release Date: 1976, September 3
Directors: Daniel Schmid
Countries: Switzerland, Germany
Production: Albatros Produktion, Artco-Film
Cast: Ingrid Caven, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Klaus Löwitsch, Irm Hermann, Ulli Lommel, Harry Baer, Annemarie Düringer, Raúl Gimenez, Peter Chatel, Adrian Hoven, Boy Gobert, Debria Kalpataru

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.

Keywords:

frankfurt am main, germany