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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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
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.
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Emmi Kurowski, 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 frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali.
Ali, Fear Eats the Soul - Full Cast & Crew. Rainer Werner Fassbinder directed this love story about the bittersweet relationship between a widow and a young Arab. Brigitte Mira, El Hedi...
Apr 27, 1997 · Emmi Kurowski ( Brigitte Mira) is about 60, a widow who works two shifts as a building cleaner, and whose children avoid her. Ali (El Hedi ben Salem) is about 40, a garage mechanic from Morocco, who lives in a room with five other Arabs and describes his life simply: “Always work, always drunk.”
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. 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 ...
