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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. The film won the International Federation of Film Critics award for best in-competition movie and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival . [1]
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.
Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/23/24 Full Review Dave S On the surface, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul has a cold and austere look and feel to it, typical of ...
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- Brigitte Mira
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Romance, Drama
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
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. When they abruptly decide to marry ...
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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. A turning point comes with the couple’s vacation in Steinsee.
