Summary: 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... (imdb)

Genre: Drama

Country: Switzerland, West Germany

Directed By: Daniel Schmid

Written By: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Daniel Schmid

Starring: Irm Hermann, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Adrian Hoven, Ingrid Caven

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