Schatten der Engel

Schatten der Engel

1976
Drama
1h 41m
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)
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Schatten der Engel

1976
Drama
1h 41m
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Rated 08 Nov 2016
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It's hard for me to say whether this is great because of Schmid's direction or Fassbinder's writing (who also acts here alongside a bunch of his regulars), but it definitely ranks among the latter's best work. It feels not unlike a more refined continuation of Fassbinder's early style (it makes sense that it was based on a play), which is always a plus in my book. I makes me excited to watch more from Schmid.

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