Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Not Rated
01 hours 33 minutes
- El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Brigitte Mira
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Drama, Romance
- October 31, 1974
- German, Arabic
- 8.0
Synopsis
The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker’s All That Heaven Allows (1955). A lonely widow (Brigitte Mira) meets a much younger Moroccan 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 wields the emotional power of classic Hollywood melodrama to expose the racial tensions underlying contemporary German culture.
