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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.
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.
Oct 2, 2014 · From the story told by the chambermaid in The American Soldier, Fassbinder took the names and social situations of the two main characters in Fear Eats the Soul, along with the interracial aspect of their relationship (although Ali is now Moroccan, not Turkish), while shifting the story from Hamburg to Munich.
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...
