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Schatten der Engel ist eine 1975 von dem Schweizer Regisseur Daniel Schmid umgesetzte und vom Schweizer Kameramann Renato Berta in einer stilistischen Bildsprache gehaltene Filmadaption des von Rainer Werner Fassbinder verfassten, viel und kontrovers diskutierten Theaterstücks Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod.
Shadow of Angels (German: Schatten der Engel) is a 1976 Swiss drama film directed by Daniel Schmid. It was entered into the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. The film is based upon the play Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast. Ingrid Caven - Lily Brest; Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Raoul; Klaus Löwitsch - Jude / Broker
Lily (Ingrid Caven) is a prostitute, working under a bridge in Vienna, but does not make much money for her pimp Raoul. Until the day a wealthy Jewish property developer offers to pay her just to listen to him. Lily gets rich, but changes, and her former friends reject her.
Shadow of Angels ( German: Schatten der Engel) is a 1976 Swiss drama film directed by Daniel Schmid. It was entered into the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. The film is based upon the play Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Shadow of Angels (German: Schatten der Engel) is a 1976 Swiss drama film directed by Daniel Schmid. It was entered into the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. [1] The film is based upon the play Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
"Schatten der Engel" or "Shadow of Angels" is a West German / Swiss co-production from 1976, so this movie has its 40th anniversary this year. The writer and director is the late Swiss filmmaker Daniel Schmid and he got help with the script from a certain Rainer Werner Fassbinder here.
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.
