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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul - Rainer Werner Fassbinder

2.5
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Directed by: 
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Screenplay by: 
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Produced by: 
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Release year: 
1974
Country: 
West Germany
Germany
Runtime: 
93min
Genre: 
Romance Film
Drama
Melodrama
Music by: 
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Plot: 
Emmi, a German woman in her mid-sixties, falls in love with Ali, a Moroccan immigrant worker around twenty-five years younger. When they abruptly decide to marry, everyone around them seems appalled. When the folks calm down a bit, Emmi and Ali's relationship grows uncertain.
Cast: 
Brigitte Mira
as
Emmi
El Hedi ben Salem
as
Ali
Barbara Valentin
as
Barbara
Irm Hermann
as
Krista
Elma Karlowa
as
Mrs. Kargus
Margit Symo
as
Hedwig
Doris Mattes
as
Mrs. Angermeyer
Gusti Kreissl
as
Paula
Anita Bucher
as
Mrs. Ellis
Lilo Pempeit
as
Mrs. Münchmeyer

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Review by HALfie

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2.5

At the same time, this film is very simple and powerful in expressing very complicated feelings with few words.

The spectator is immediately involved in the main character’s relationships and in the general environment, tendentially hostile towards them .

Despite Ali and Emmi are theorically so far on the basis of the race and the age, they gradually prove to be so close although politics and prejudices divide them.  Deliberately, director cuts the “strong feelings” such as desperation and happyness in order to remain “in the middle” of the soul.

"If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."
Taken, 2008