Ali Fear Eats The Soul [Sub: Eng]
Emmi, a German woman in her mid-sixties, falls in love with Ali, a Moroccan immigrant worker around twenty-five years younger. They marry, despite the shocked, bigoted reactions of those around them. When the folks calm down a bit, Emmi and Ali';;s relationship grows uncertain.
27 May 1935, Oberstdorf, Bavaria, Germany
1935, Morocco
September 1, 1937
2 January 1904, Munich, Germany
29 November 1948, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
6 October 1922, Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]
3 May 1940
15 December 1940, Vienna, Austria
7 October 1938
March 3, 1902 in Vienna, Austria
1940
20 April 1910, Hamburg, Germany
4 October 1942, Munich, Germany
13 September 1913, Budapest, Austria-Hungary
27 June 1941, Hamburg, Germany
21 March 1932, Germany
20 July 1941, Bergreichenstein, Sudetenland [now Kasperské Hory, Czech Republic]
8 June 1940
18 May 1939, Hamburg, Germany
31 May 1945, Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria, Germany
12 March 1932, Zagreb, Yugoslavia [now Croatia]
6 January 1926, Munich, Germany
March 30, 2017
The performances of Brigitte Mira and El Hedi Ben Salem as Emmi and Ali are superb; they act with instant sympathy and charm and in their own way, they are the most purely lovable characters I have ever seen on a movie screen.June 03, 2014
Fassbinder's historicism is a crucial aspect of his modernism: he didn't just make use of prior forms, he quoted them, and derived from them the ironies implicit in his melodramatic styles.May 09, 2005
It is, rather, another quite courageous attempt by Mr. Fassbinder to develop a film style free of the kind of realistic conventions that sentimentalize life's mysteries.March 30, 2017
Fassbinder made so many incredible films, but this is certainly up there with his finest.April 26, 2017
It even manages something like a happy ending without sugar-coating the still poignantly relevant themes.Timely and heartbreaking, some 43 years after its debut.March 27, 2017
One of the most beautiful films ever made, plain and simple.May 25, 2011
This 1974 film stands as one of Fassbinder's sturdiest achievements, posed between the low-budget funkiness of his early features and the mannerism of his late period.April 02, 2017
The performances are flawless; the themes remain timely.January 26, 2006
Fassbinder uses dramatic and visual excess to push everyday events to extremes, achieving a degree of political and psychological truth not accessible through mere social realism.April 14, 2016
It's surely the sheer, unvarnished humanity on display that's the film's greatest success.June 26, 2008
Technically flawless, deceptively simple and avoiding excesses, it is about problems that are timely and timeless in implications.