Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Plot

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.

About Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (German: Angst essen Seele auf) is a 1974 West German melodrama film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Brigitte Mira and El Hedi ben Salem. The film won the International Federation of Film Critics award for best in-competition movie and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. It is considered one of Fassbinder's most powerful works and hailed by many as a masterpiece. The film revolves around the romance that develops between Emmi, an older German woman, and Ali, a Moroccan migrant worker in postwar West Germany.

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