Ali: Fear Eats the Soul [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Cast: Brigitte Mira
Brigitte Mira
, El Hedi Ben Salem
El Hedi Ben Salem
, Barbara Valentin
Barbara Valentin
, Irm Hermann
Irm Hermann
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Cast: Brigitte Mira
Brigitte Mira
, El Hedi Ben Salem
El Hedi Ben Salem
, Barbara Valentin
Barbara Valentin
, Irm Hermann
Irm Hermann
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Overview

Rainer Werner Fassbinder not only directed Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf), but also scripted the film, designed the sets, and produced. Brigitte Mira heads the cast as a lonely German cleaning woman, who enters into an affair with equally lonely--and much, much younger--Moroccan mechanic El Hedi Ben Salem. They marry, despite the shocked, bigoted reactions of those around them. This thinly disguised remake of Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (cult favorite Sirk was one of Fassbinder's personal heroes) won the international critic's prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Product Details

Release Date: 06/30/2014
UPC: 0715515127219
Original Release: 1974
Source: Criterion Collection
Region Code: A
Language: English
Time: 1:33:00
Sales rank: 10,933

Special Features

New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Jürgen Jürges, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; Introduction from 2003 by filmmaker Todd Haynes; Interviews from 2003 with actor Brigitte Mira and editor Thea Eymész; Shahbaz Noshir's 2002 short story Angst Isst Seele Auf, which reunited Mira, Eymész, and Jürges to tell the story, based on real events, of an attack by neo-Nazis on a foreign actor while on his way to a stage performance of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's screenplay; Signs of Vigorous Life: New German Cinema, a 1976 BBC program about the film movement of which Fassbinder was a part; Scene from Fassbinder's 1970 film The American Soldier that inspired Ali: Fear Eats the Soul; Trailer; Plus: an essay by critic Chris Fujiwara

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Brigitte Mira Emmi Kurowski
El Hedi Ben Salem Ali
Barbara Valentin Barbara
Irm Hermann Krista
Peter Gauhe Bruno
Rainer Werner Fassbinder Eugen
Karl Scheydt Albert
Elma Karlowa Mrs. Kargus
Anita Bucher Mrs. Ellis
Walter Sedlmayr Grocer
Doris Mattes Grocer's Wife
Gusti Kreissl Paula
Liselotte Eder Mrs. Munchmeyer
Marquand Bohm Gruber,Gruber,Actor
Margit Symo Actor
Lilo Pempeit Actor
Peter Moland Actor
Hannes Gromball Actor
Rudolf Brem Actor

Technical Credits
Rainer Werner Fassbinder Executive Producer,Director,Screenwriter,Producer
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