Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Angst essen Seele auf, feature film, romantic drama, West Germany, 1974

DIRECTED BY: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

CAST:
Brigitte Mira (Emmi Kurowski),
El Hedi ben Salem (Ali),
Barbara Valentin (Barbara),
Irm Hermann (Krista),
Karl Scheydt (Albert Kurowski)

SCRIPT:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Jürgen Jürges

EDITING:
Thea Eymèsz

Synopsis:
A story about forbidden love between a widow in her sixties, Emma, and worker Ali – from Morocco, twenty years younger than she. When the outer pressure calms down and when they are left alone, there arouses a new inner pressure bringing a new threat to their relationship. There is a question if Ali can adjust to the environment and life with Emma… 

color, 92'

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