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.
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Directing | Daniel Schmid | Director |
Writing | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Screenplay |
Writing | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Theatre Play |
Production | Michael Fengler | Producer |
Costume & Make-Up | Gera Graf | Costume Design |
Sound | Gunther Kortwich | Sound |
Production | Jordan Bojilov | Producer |
Writing | Daniel Schmid | Screenplay |
Camera | Renato Berta | Director of Photography |
Editing | Ila von Hasperg | Editor |
Sound | Peer Raben | Music |
Art | Raúl Gimenez | Set Designer |
Sound | Gottfried Hüngsberg | Music |