ALI:FEAR EATS THE SOUL

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• Release Year: 1974
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Plot: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, already the director of almost twenty films by the age of twenty-nine, paid homage to his cinematic hero, Douglas Sirk, with this updated version of Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows. Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski (Brigitte Mira) meets Arab worker Ali (El Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love––to their own surprise––and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen seele auf), Fassbinder expertly uses the emotional power of the melodrama to reflect the racial tensions threatening German culture.
• Cast: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann, Karl Scheydt, Marquard Bohm, Walter Sedlmayr, Doris Mattes, Lilo Pempeit, Gusti Kreissl, Margit Symo, Elisabeth Bertram, Helga Ballhaus, Elma Karlowa, Anita Bucher, Peter Gauhe, Hannes Gromball, Katharina Herberg, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Peter Moland, Hark Bohm, Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wolfgang Hess, Kurt Raab, Jürgen Jürges, Thea Eymèsz, Fritz Müller-Scherz
• Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Runtime: 1:33
• Company: Wellspring, Tango Film Production, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie