Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Original Title
Angst essen Seele auf- Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Producer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
CGiii Comment
Fassbiner puts a little warmth into a cold place.
The tableaux and awkward acting simply adds to the eccentricity...but, there is a savage truth, straightforward...no mincing of words.
It's humanity - at its bleakest and the heartwarming potential it has...
Stylised and smart. Very smart.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Emmi, a German woman in her mid-sixties, falls in love with Ali, a Moroccan immigrant worker around twenty-five years younger. When they abruptly decide to marry, everyone around them seems appalled. When the folks calm down a bit, Emmi and Ali's relationship grows uncertain.
Cast & Characters
Brigitte Mira as Emmi Kurowski;
El Hedi ben Salem as Ali;
Barbara Valentin as Barbara;
Irm Hermann as Krista;
Karl Scheydt as Albert Kurowski;
Marquard Bohm as Gruber;
Walter Sedlmayr as Angermayer;
Doris Mattes as Mrs. Angermeyer;
Lilo Pempeit as Mrs. Munchmeyer;
Gusti Kreissl as Paula;
Margit Symo as Hedwig;
Elisabeth Bertram as Frieda;
Helga Ballhaus as Yolanda;
Elma Karlowa as Mrs. Kargus;
Anita Bucher as Mrs. Ellis