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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul


Rainer Werner Fassbinder, already the director of almost twenty films by the age of twenty-nine, paid homage to his cinematic hero, Douglas Sirk, with this updated version of Sirk's All That Heaven Allows. Lonely widow Emmi Kurowsky (Brigitte Mira) meets Arab worker Ali (El Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love--to their own surprise--and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen seele auf), Fassbinder expertly uses the emotional power of the melodrama to underscore the racial tensions threatening German culture.

DVD - The Criterion Collection

  • New high-definition digital transfer
  • Video introduction by director Todd Haynes
    (Far From Heaven, Velvet Goldmine, Safe)
  • Interviews with actress Brigitte Mira and
    editor Thea Eymèsz
  • Short film Angst isst Seele auf(2002)
  • Signs of Vigourous Life: New German Cinema,
    a 1976 BBC television program
  • Excerpt from The American Soldier starring
    Margarethe von Trotta
  • Original theatrical trailer
  • New and improved English subtitle
    translation
  • Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer
    edition


Curator's Comments:
Read Roger Ebert's essay on this DVD Classic.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Color
93 minutes
Released: 1974
Rated: NR

Country: Germany
Language: German (new English translation and subtitles)
Genre: Drama, Romance

 

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