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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The Merchant of Four Seasons 1972 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Cast: Hans Hirschmuller, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla, Andrea Schober, Gusti Kreissl, Kurt Raab, Heide Simon, Klaus Lowitsch, Karl Scheydt, Ingrid Caven
This is a bleak, but powerful, portrait of Hans, a fruit peddler on the streets of a German town. Starting with high hopes after returning from a tour in the French Foreign Legion, he settles into a loveless marriage, and his depression gets deeper as his failures mount. He finally drinks himself to death.
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| 1. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
aka: Fear Eats the Soul
2. The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972)
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