(Schatten der Engel)

Content: 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.

Countries:

Switzerland,

Germany

Genres:

Drama

Runtime:

101 minutes

Year:

1976

Directors:

Daniel Schmid

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Production companies:

Albatros Produktion,

Artco-Film

Actors:

Lily Brest

Raoul

Jude

Zwerg

Marie-Antoinette

Crews:

Theatre Play

Director

Screenplay

Sound

Producer