Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Angst essen Seele auf (original)

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1h 33mDrama Romance

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. A lonely widow (Brigitte Mira) meets a much younger Arab worker (El Hedi ben Salem) 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. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Fassbinder expertly uses the emotional power of classic Hollywood melodrama to expose the racial tensions underlying contemporary German culture.

Spoken language: de

Starring Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Irm Hermann, Barbara Valentin, Elma Karlowa, Anita Bucher, Gusti Kreissl, Doris Mattes, Margit Symo, Katharina Herberg

Watch "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul" from streaming services Google Play, BFI Player, Curzon and several more released in 1974. It's a drama and romance movie, and has a rating of 8 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.