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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder


  • Country: West Germany
  • Year: 1974
  • Language: German/Arabic
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  • Runtime: 93 min.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, achieved his greatest critical and popular success with his remake of Douglas Sirk's Rock Hudson-Jane Wyman melodrama All That Heaven Allows.

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screening times

    • Monday October 4
    • 7:30:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox Cinema 4
    • Monday October 11
    • 8:00:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3

Note: indicates Premium Screening.

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, achieved his greatest critical and popular success with his remake of Douglas Sirk's Rock Hudson-Jane Wyman melodrama All That Heaven Allows. Focusing on a late-middle-aged charwoman (Brigitte Mira) who incurs the wrath of family and friends by falling in love with an Arab mechanic (El Hedi ben Salem) half her age, Fassbinder complicates the cross-class romance of the Sirk film with the racially charged issue of Germany's foreign "guest workers." Beyond its topical hook, however, Fassbinder invests this unlikely romance with a beguiling tenderness, creating the warmest, most touching and generous work in his inimitable canon.

Thanks to Joanna Flogaus and Annemarie Abel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation.

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