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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.
Oct 31, 1974 · A 1974 German drama film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder about a romance between a widow and a Moroccan worker. Find cast, crew, reviews, awards, trivia, quotes, and more on IMDb.
Apr 27, 1997 · A classic 1974 German drama about a lonely widow and a Moroccan immigrant who fall in love in a hostile society. Roger Ebert praises the film's simplicity, tenderness and irony, and sees it as a reflection of Fassbinder's own outsider status.
A lonely German widow falls in love with a younger Moroccan worker in this 1974 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The plot follows their relationship and the social challenges they face from their families, friends, and society.
A classic of 1970s cinema, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is a love story between an elderly German woman and an Arab immigrant mechanic. The film pays homage to Douglas Sirk's melodramas and explores themes of alienation, racism, and identity.
A classic German melodrama by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, inspired by Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows. It tells the story of a lonely widow and a young Arab worker who fall in love amid racial prejudice and social isolation.
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.
