Shadow of Angels (Schatten der Engel) 48 years old

Shadow of Angels

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.

Credits

Shadow of Angels Cast

Name Character
Ulli Lommel He was 31, 72 years old when he died as Der kleine Prinz
Klaus Löwitsch He was 39, 66 years old when he died as Jude
Jean-Claude Dreyfus He was 29, now 78 years old as Zwerg
Ingrid Caven She was 37, now 86 years old as Lily Brest
Boy Gobert He was 50, 60 years old when he died as Polizeichef
Rainer Werner Fassbinder He was 30, 37 years old when he died as Raoul
Irm Hermann She was 33, now 82 years old as Emma
Adrian Hoven He was 53, 58 years old when he died as Herr Müller
Debria Kalpataru as Marie-Antoinette
Ila von Hasperg as Violet
Annemarie Düringer was 50, 89 years old when died as Luise Müller

Shadow of Angels Crew

Name Department
Renato Berta as Director of Photography. He was 30 (now 79) years old Camera
Ila von Hasperg as Editor. Editing
Shadow of Angels poster
Shadow of Angels (48 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, January 31, 1976
  • Runtime: 101 minutes