Directed by:
Rainer Werner FassbinderScreenplay:
Rainer Werner FassbinderCinematography:
Jürgen JürgesCast:
Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Irm Hermann, Elma Karlowa, Anita Bucher, Gusti Kreissl, Doris Mattes, Margit Symo, Katharina Herberg, Lilo Pempeit (more)VOD (2)
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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. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Brigitte Mira
German Empire
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Satan's Brew (1976)
El Hedi ben Salem
Morocco
Best movies:
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Martha (1974) (TV movie)
Jail Bait (1973) (TV movie)
Irm Hermann
German Empire
Best movies:
Der Zauberberg (1982)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Elma Karlowa
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) (TV movie)
Anita Bucher
Best movies:
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Gusti Kreissl
German Empire
Best movies:
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971)
Doris Mattes
Best movies:
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) (TV movie)
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)
Margit Symo
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Katharina Herberg
German Empire
Best movies:
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Lilo Pempeit
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) (TV movie)
Peter Gauhe
Best movies:
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Effi Briest (1974)
World on a Wire (1973) (TV movie)
Marquard Bohm
German Empire
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Kings of the Road (1976)
Walter Sedlmayr
German Empire
Best movies:
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Fist-Right of Freedom (1975)
World on a Wire (1973) (TV movie)
Hannes Gromball
German Empire
Best movies:
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)
Satan's Brew (1976)
Hark Bohm
German Empire
Best movies:
Paradis Express (1997)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Underground (1995)
Rudolf Waldemar Brem
Germany
Best movies:
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Martha (1974) (TV movie)
Jail Bait (1973) (TV movie)
Karl Scheydt
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) (TV movie)
Peter Moland
Best movies:
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)
World on a Wire (1973) (TV movie)
Barbara Valentin
German Empire
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Martha (1974) (TV movie)
Helga Ballhaus
Best movies:
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Whity (1971)
Tatort (1970) (series)