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 · 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
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. Emmi, a German woman in her mid-sixties, falls in love with Ali, a Moroccan immigrant worker around twenty-five years younger.
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 Werner...
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- Brigitte Mira
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Romance, Drama
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. 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 Allows.
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.
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