Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

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1974

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Director:

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Studio:

Tango-Film

Starring:

Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin

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Emmi, a lonely widowed cleaning woman in her sixties in Munich, steps into a bar to shelter from the rain and meets Ali, a Moroccan migrant worker some twenty years younger. The two fall in love and marry, but they face the scorn of her children, neighbours and colleagues.