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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul ( German: Angst essen Seele auf) is a 1974 West German drama film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Brigitte Mira and El Hedi ben Salem.
Oct 31, 1974 · Ali: Fear Eats the Soul: Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Irm Hermann, Elma Karlowa. A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm.
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- Drama, Romance
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- 1974-10-31
Apr 27, 1997 · A classic 1974 German drama about a lonely widow and a Moroccan immigrant who fall in love in a hostile society. Roger Ebert praises the film's simplicity, tenderness and irony, and sees it as a reflection of Fassbinder's own outsider status.
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. Emmi, a German woman in her mid-sixties, falls in love with Ali, a Moroccan immigrant worker around twenty-five years younger.
A classic German melodrama by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, inspired by Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows. It tells the story of a lonely widow and a young Arab worker who fall in love amid racial prejudice and social isolation.
- Emmi Kurowski
Regarded as one of the high-water marks in German New Wave cinema of the 1970s, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is at once an intense portrayal of a relationship and a tribute to one of Rainer Werner ...
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- Romance, Drama
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. Roger Ebert October 05, 1974. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Although “Ali: Fear Eats the Soul” was one of the first films by Fassbinder to make an impression outside Germany, his style was already formed and his confidence unshakable.
