L'ombra degli angeli

L'ombra degli angeli (1976)

Schatten der Engel

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.

Data di uscita
1976-09-03
TMDB
4.4 / 10 (9)
Durata
1 h 41 min
Generi
Dramma
Regista
Daniel Schmid

Cast

Curiosità

  • Basato su: Trash, the City and Death

Shadow of Angels is a 1976 Swiss drama film directed by Daniel Schmid and written by Schmid and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Adapted from Fassbinder's play Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod, the film stars Ingrid Caven and was screened in competition at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.

Production

Shadow of Angels was adapted from Rainer Werner Fassbinder's play Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod. Fassbinder had originally tried to film the play himself, but the project failed to secure financing. Daniel Schmid then directed the adaptation. The source play sparked debate over alleged antisemitic tendencies. It was Schmid's first film based on a screenplay by another writer.

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