SHOWTIMES AND TICKETS

The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker's All That Heaven Allows (1955). A lonely widow (Brigitte Mira) meets a much younger Moroccan worker (El Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise-and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Fassbinder expertly wields the emotional power of classic Hollywood melodrama to expose the racial tensions underlying contemporary German culture.

  • Director :
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Starring :
  • Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann, Elma Karlowa
  • Release Date :
  • 19 Sep 1974
  • Certificate :
  • TBC
  • Rate This Film :
  • Rating Description :
  • moderate sex, nudity, language, racism theme