Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their trade on the night-time streets of Germany; the second is a staged play, cut down to 10 minutes by Straub and photographed in a single take; the final sequence covers the marriage of James and Lilith, and Lilith’s subsequent execution of her pimp, played by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. "The film is a look entirely at Western decadence" - Jean-Marie Straub.
Jean-Marie Straub
Director
Danièle Huillet
Director
Helmut Färber
Writer
Irm Hermann
Desiree
Kristin Peterson
Irene
Hanna Schygulla
Lucy
Peer Raben
Willi
Rudolf Waldemar Brem
Petrell
Jimmy Powell
James
Lilith Ungerer
Lilith
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
the pimp
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