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
Apr 27, 1997 · The phrase “fear eats the soul” is one that Arabs often use, Ali tells Emmi. Certainly it is eating his soul. The film’s ending, as sudden and melodramatic as life can be, is a reflection of the unendurable tension Ali experiences as a stranger in a hostile land.
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They fall in love, to their own surprise—and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies. 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 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.
Rated 4.5/5 Stars • 01/21/22. 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 ...
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- Romance, Drama
Oct 2, 2014 · Ali: Fear Eats the Soul: One Love, Two Oppressions. By Chris Fujiwara. Essays —. Oct 2, 2014. W ith Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), Rainer Werner Fassbinder achieved a major milestone in his career and made one of the great works of the New German Cinema. The film clearly builds on the strengths that had made Fassbinder’s previous works so ...
