FEAR EATS THE SOUL
synopsis
The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker's Secondo amore (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.
international title: | Fear Eats the Soul |
original title: | Angst essen Seele auf |
country: | Germany |
year: | 1974 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
film run: | 92' |
release date: | DE 05/03/1974, FR 16/05/1974, DK 15/08/1974, UK 19/09/1974, PL 25/02/1975, SE 28/09/1976, FI 18/11/1977, GR 20/02/1978, HU 08/06/1978, IT 23/04/1980, ES 12/11/1980, PT 27/02/1987, RS 26/02/2007 |
screenplay: | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
cast: | Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin |
cinematography by: | Jürgen Jürges |