- Introduction by director Todd Haynes
- Interviews with actress Brigitte Mira and editor Thea Eymesz
- Short film Fear is the Soul (2002)
- Signs of Vigourous Life: New German Cinema, a 35-minute documentary from the BBC
- Excerpt from The American Soldier starring Margarethe Von Trotta
Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (Criterion Collection) (1974) On DVD
Actor: Anita Bucher, El Hedi ben Salem, Irm Hermann, Elma Karlowa, Gusti Kreissl
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Genre: Foreign Video
Year: 1974
Studio: Criterion Collection (Direct)
Length: 94
Released: June 24, 2003
Rating: Unrated (Video)
Format: DVD
Misc: Black & White
Language:German
Subtitles :English
DESCRIPTION:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, already the director of almost twenty films by the age of 29, paid homage to his cinematic hero, Douglas Sirk, with this updated version of Sirk's All That Heaven Allows. Lonely widow Emmi Kurowsky (Brigitte Mira) meets Arab worker Ali (El Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. To their own surprise (and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies) they fall in love. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen seele auf), Fassbinder expertly uses the emotional power of the melodrama to underscore the racial tensions threatening German culture.
Special Features
Actor: Anita Bucher, El Hedi ben Salem, Irm Hermann, Elma Karlowa, Gusti Kreissl
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Genre: Foreign Video
Year: 1974
Studio: Criterion Collection (Direct)
Length: 94
Released: June 24, 2003
Rating: Unrated (Video)
Format: DVD
Misc: Black & White
Language:German
Subtitles :English
DESCRIPTION:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, already the director of almost twenty films by the age of 29, paid homage to his cinematic hero, Douglas Sirk, with this updated version of Sirk's All That Heaven Allows. Lonely widow Emmi Kurowsky (Brigitte Mira) meets Arab worker Ali (El Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. To their own surprise (and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies) they fall in love. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen seele auf), Fassbinder expertly uses the emotional power of the melodrama to underscore the racial tensions threatening German culture.
Special Features
- Introduction by director Todd Haynes
- Interviews with actress Brigitte Mira and editor Thea Eymesz
- Short film Fear is the Soul (2002)
- Signs of Vigourous Life: New German Cinema, a 35-minute documentary from the BBC
- Excerpt from The American Soldier starring Margarethe Von Trotta
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