Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1973)
(Ängste essen Seele auf)
Country: GER
Technical: col 92m
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Brigitti Mira, El Hedi Ben Salem
Synopsis:
A lonely widow falls in love with a younger Arab worker in a bar, much to their own surprise and that of their friends and family.
Review:
Fassbinder remakes All that Heaven Allows for seventies German social realism. As de-glamorised as you can imagine, with the racial angle that Todd Haynes would also adopt.
(Ängste essen Seele auf)
Country: GER
Technical: col 92m
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Brigitti Mira, El Hedi Ben Salem
Synopsis:
A lonely widow falls in love with a younger Arab worker in a bar, much to their own surprise and that of their friends and family.
Review:
Fassbinder remakes All that Heaven Allows for seventies German social realism. As de-glamorised as you can imagine, with the racial angle that Todd Haynes would also adopt.
(Ängste essen Seele auf)
Country: GER
Technical: col 92m
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Brigitti Mira, El Hedi Ben Salem
Synopsis:
A lonely widow falls in love with a younger Arab worker in a bar, much to their own surprise and that of their friends and family.
Review:
Fassbinder remakes All that Heaven Allows for seventies German social realism. As de-glamorised as you can imagine, with the racial angle that Todd Haynes would also adopt.