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1976
1h 41m
6.5IMDb

Drama

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What it's about

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.

Cast and crew

Director: Daniel Schmid
Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Daniel Schmid
Starring: Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Annemarie Düringer

Details

Release date: Jun 1, 1983
Language: German
Country: Switzerland, West Germany
Awards: 3 nominations