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. 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. View more details
Directed : Daniel Schmid
Written : Rainer Werner Fassbinder Daniel Schmid
Stars : Adrian Hoven Rainer Werner Fassbinder Annemarie Düringer Ingrid Caven
Genres : Drama
Release date : Sep 2, 1976
Countries of origin : Switzerland West Germany
Official sites : Director's official site Swiss Films page
Language : German
Filming locations : Vienna, Austria
Production companies : Artco-Film Albatros Filmproduktion
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. 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. View more details
Genres : Drama
Release date : Sep 2, 1976
Countries of origin : Switzerland West Germany
Official sites : Director's official site Swiss Films page
Language : German
Filming locations : Vienna, Austria
Production companies : Artco-Film Albatros Filmproduktion