A widow trades dignity for diapers in 70s Rome's brutal economy.
Acting
Barbara Betti's exhausted, luminous desperation.
Cinematography
Trastevere streets that swallow hope whole.
Director
Elfriede Gaeng
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Elfriede Gaeng was an Austrian documentarian making her sole fiction feature—this outsider eye explains the unflinching anthropological gaze on Roman working-class life.
The 'angels' of the title refers ironically to neighborhood sex workers who become Maria's only support network—Gaeng reframes Catholic sainthood through solidarity among the damned.
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