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Ali : fear eats the soul /

Ali : fear eats the soul / German title: Angst essen Seel auf - 1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet. - - The Criterion collection ; 198 . - Criterion collection ; 198. .

Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 1974. Special features: Introduction for 2003 by filmmaker Todd Haynes; Interviews from 2003 with actor Brigitte Mira and editor Thea Eymèsz; Shahbaz Noshir's 2002 short "Angst isst Seele auf", which reunites Mira, Eymèsz, and Jürges to tell the story, based on real events, of an attack by neo-Nazis on a foreign actor while on his way to a stage performance of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's screenplay; "Signs of vigorous life: new German cinema", a 1976 BBC program about the film movement of which Fassbinder was a part; Scene from Fassbinder's 1970 film "The American Soldier" that inspired "Ali: fear eats the soul"; trailer; Plus: an essay by critic Chris Fujiwara.

Director of photography, Jürgen Jürges ; editor, Thea Eymèsz. Director of photography, Jürgen Jürges ; editor, Thea Eymèsz.

Brigitte Mira, El Hedi Ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann.

A lonely widow meets a much younger Arab worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise, and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.


Blu-ray, region A, fullscreen (1.37:1); mono.; requires Blu-ray player.


German dialogue; English subtitles.

9781604659030 1604659033

715515127219

198 The Criterion Collection


Widows--Drama.
May-December romances--Drama.
May-December romances.
Widows.


Feature films.
Feature films.
Foreign language films--German.
Drama.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Drama.

PN1997 / .A55 2014