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The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker’s 1955 All That Heaven Allows. 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.
Original Release
06/05/1974
US Release
10/31/1974
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Brigitte Mira | Emmi / Emmi Kurowski |
El Hedi ben Salem | Ali |
Irm Hermann | Krista |
Elma Karlowa | Mrs. Kargus |
Anita Bucher | Mrs. Ellis |
Gusti Kreissl | Paula |
Doris Mattes | Mrs. Angermeyer / Mrs. Angermayer |
Margit Symo | Hedwig |
Katharina Herberg | Girl in bar / Bardame |
Lilo Pempeit | Mrs. Münchmeyer / Mrs. Munchmeyer |
Directors
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Brigitte Mira | Emmi / Emmi Kurowski |
El Hedi ben Salem | Ali |
Irm Hermann | Krista |
Elma Karlowa | Mrs. Kargus |
Anita Bucher | Mrs. Ellis |
Gusti Kreissl | Paula |
Doris Mattes | Mrs. Angermeyer / Mrs. Angermayer |
Margit Symo | Hedwig |
Katharina Herberg | Girl in bar / Bardame |
Lilo Pempeit | Mrs. Münchmeyer / Mrs. Munchmeyer |
Peter Gauhe | Bruno Kurowski / Bruno |
Marquard Bohm | Gruber |
Walter Sedlmayr | Angermayer / Mr. Angermayer |
Hannes Gromball | Waiter |
Hark Bohm | Doctor |
Rudolf Waldemar Brem | Card player / Car mechanic |
Karl Scheydt | Albert Kurowski / Albert |
Peter Moland | Chief garage mechanic |
Barbara Valentin | Barbara |
Helga Ballhaus | Yolanda |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Producer |