Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Fear Eats the Soul
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann, Peter Gauhe, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karl Scheydt, Elma Karlowa, Anita Bucher, Walter Sedlmayr, Gusti Kreissl, Doris Mattes
Aging charwoman Emmi (Brigitte Mira) meets and begins an affair with a Moroccan, Ali (El Hedi Ben Salem), 20 years her junior. The couple is shunned by those around them and, after a time, they begin to have doubts about their relationship. Based on Douglas Sirk's "All That Heaven Allows," this is a good satire on prejudice.
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Martha 1974  TV, 116 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Bohm, Barbara Valentin, Peter Chatel, Gisela Fackeldey, Adrian Hoven, Ortrud Beginnen, Kurt Raab, Ingrid Caven, Peter Berling, Gunter Lamprecht, El Hedi ben Salem
Martha (Margit Carstensen) has lived a protected life, but her lifestyle changes when, immediately following her father's death, she marries a stranger (Karlheinz Bohm), and the battles begin.
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| 1. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
aka: Fear Eats the Soul
2. Martha (1974)
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