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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

Name: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Genre: drama film, romance film, art film
Rating: 8

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is a 1974 West German melodrama film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Brigitte Mira and El Hedi ben Salem. The film won the International Federation of Film Critics award for best in-competition movie and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. It is considered one of Fassbinder's most powerful works and hailed by many as a masterpiece.

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Shot by Jürgen Jürges · Cut by Thea Eymèsz · Music by Peer Raben

Behind the scenes

Observations on Film Art: The Stripped-Down Style of ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL — CRITERION · 3 min

Elsewhere

More by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The City Tramp — 1966
This Night — 1966
Das kleine Chaos — 1967
Katzelmacher — 1969
Love Is Colder Than Death — 1969
Gods of the Plague — 1969
The Niklashausen Journey — 1970
The Coffee Shop — 1970
Pioneers in Ingolstadt — 1970
The American Soldier — 1970
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? — 1970
Rio das Mortes — 1970
Beware of a Holy Whore — 1971
Whity — 1971
The Merchant of Four Seasons — 1972
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant — 1972
Jail Bait — 1972
Bremen Freedom — 1972
World on a Wire — 1973
Nora Helmer — 1974
Effi Briest — 1974
Martha — 1974
Like a Bird on a Wire — 1975
Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven — 1975
Fear of Fear — 1975
Fox and His Friends — 1975
Satan's Brew — 1976
I Only Want You To Love Me — 1976
Chinese Roulette — 1976
Women in New York — 1977

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