CRITERION COLLECTION: ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1974
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with the update of that filmmaker's 1955 All That Heaven Allows. A lonely widow (Brigitte Mira) meets a much younger Arab worker (El Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise-and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Fassbinder expertly wields the emotional power of classic Hollywood melodrama to expose the racial tensions underlying contemporary German culture.
• Cast: Brigitte Mira, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ingrid Caven, Elisabeth Bertram, Helga Ballhaus, Barbara Valentin, Peter Moland, Karl Scheydt, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Hark Bohm, Hannes Gromball, Walter Sedlmayr, Marquard Bohm, Peter Gauhe, Lilo Pempeit, Katharina Herberg, Margit Symo, Doris Mattes, Gusti Kreissl, Anita Bucher, Elma Karlowa, Irm Hermann, El Hedi ben Salem, Wolfgang Hess, Kurt Raab, Jürgen Jürges, Thea Eymèsz, Fritz Müller-Scherz
• Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Runtime: 1:33
• Company: Tango Film Production, Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie