Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1974 film · Released March 5, 1974
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (German: Angst essen Seele auf) is a 1974 West German melodrama film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Brigitte Mira and El Hedi ben Salem. The film won the International Federation of Film Critics award for best in-competition movie and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. It is considered one of Fassbinder's most powerful works and hailed by many as a masterpiece. The film revolves around the romance that develops between Emmi, an older German woman, and Ali, a Moroccan migrant worker in postwar West Germany.
Cast ages at release (March 5, 1974)
- Brigitte Mira: 63
- El Hedi ben Salem: 38
- Barbara Valentin: 33
- Irm Hermann: 31
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder: 28
- Karl Scheydt: 33
- Elma Karlowa: 41
- Walter Sedlmayr: 48
- Gusti Kreissl: 70
- Marquard Bohm: 32
- Margit Symo: 60
- Helga Ballhaus: 38