SHADOW OF ANGELS is the film adaptation of R.W. Fassbinder's last and most controversial play, "Garbage, the City, and Death," which was banned in Germany. The story concerns Lily, a prostitute too beautiful to have clients and the real estate speculator she befriends. Lily is paid to listen to her customers' despairing monologues about politics, power, corruption, and guilt. SHADOW OF ANGELS is quintessential Fassbinder, a fable about victims and victimizers and not so nascent neo-Nazi sympathies in post-war Germany.

"Proto-Fassbinder... anyone interested in the kind of theater in which the late Rainer Fassbinder worked might want to make an effort to see 'Shadow of Angels.'"
VINCENT CANBY, NEW YORK TIMES

"The film is a stunner, a sharp mesmerizing summary of Fassbinder's thematic concerns, anchored by what may be his freshest and most charismatic performance as an actor."
GODFREY CHESHIRE, NEW YORK PRESS

"Fascinating...a haunting precursor to the themes of such later masterpieces as ‘The Marriage of Maria Braun.'"
DESMOND RYAN, THE PHILADELPHIA ENQUIRER