Daniel Schmid
Schatten der Engel (L'ombre des anges)
Edition 1978
101'
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1976
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Drama
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Dialogue:
German
Director:
Daniel Schmid
Composer:
Gottfried Hüngsberg, Peer Raben
With:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ingrid Caven, Annemarie Düringer
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.
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Credits
Director
Daniel Schmid
Composer
Gottfried Hüngsberg, Peer Raben
With
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ingrid Caven, Annemarie Düringer
Scenario
Daniel Schmid, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Director of Photography
Renato Berta
Editor
Ila von Hasperg
Producer
Michael Fengler
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Dialogue
German
Countries of production
Switzerland, West Germany
Year
1976