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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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