Brigitte Mira
Emmi Kurowski
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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 ...
Oct 31, 1974 · 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. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.
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- Drama, Romance
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- 1974-10-31
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.
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Overview. 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.
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. In it, he creates an unlikely social situation and watches it, deadpan, through scenes of ...
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 Criterion Collection
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd. 1974. Angst essen Seele auf. Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship.
