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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.
Apr 27, 1997 · “Ali: Fear Eats the Soul” (1974) tells the story of these two people. Emmi Kurowski (Brigitte Mira) is about 60, a widow who works two shifts as a building cleaner, and whose children avoid her.
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.
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker’s 1955 All That Heaven Allows.
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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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.
