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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 · A classic German drama by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, inspired by Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows. It tells the story of a lonely widow and a young Moroccan worker who fall in love amid racial prejudice and social isolation.
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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
Emmi Kurowski (Brigitte Mira), a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar...
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- Romance, Drama
Oct 2, 2014 · In the first part of Fear Eats the Soul, the oppression comes from Emmi’s children, neighbors, and coworkers, who all turn against her because of her marriage to Ali. Their attitudes, and the emotional devastation wreaked upon Emmi, are powerfully and simply delineated.
