| Title | : | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul |
|---|---|---|
| Release | : | 1974 |
| Rating | : | 8.1 |
| Language | : | German, Arabic |
| Runtime | : | 92 |
| Genre | : | Drama,Romance |
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 Arab 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.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
