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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

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Movie
1974
1h 33m
German
Romance, Drama
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.
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8.1
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CRITIC SCORE
95

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Maarten Delfgou says...
3 years ago
The original title of the film is Angst Essen Seele auf.
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soonertbone says...
2 years ago
Really didn’t do it for me. No emotion coming through, unpleasant throughout. Then I learned afterward Fassbinder was a terrible person, so this was a regretful watch.
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smallclone
7/10  6 years ago
Superb film. Fassbinder's ability to make bleak characters so interesting is pretty remarkable. This film is just as important today as it was in 1973. The script and plot captures how I'd imagine Postwar Munich really felt. for The prejudice and bigotry expressed then is unfortunately preva More
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CRCulver
6 years ago
The original title of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1974 film "Fear Eats the Soul" is deliberately ungrammatical German: ANGST ESSEN SEELE AUF "Fear Eat Soul". That is due to one of the two protagonists we meet: Ali (El Hedi ben Salem) is a Moroccan immigrant working in Munich. He toils as a car repair More
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