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Angst Essen Seele Auf, released in the English-speaking world as Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is a 1974 German film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It stars Brigitte Mira as Emmi Kurowski and El Hedi ben Salem as Ali. The director won 2 awards at the Cannes Film Festival and Mira received a German Film Award.

The story concerns Ali, a young Arab guest worker, and Emmi, a widowed washwoman. They meet when Emmi ducks inside a bar, driven by the rain and drawn by the exotic music. The German bartender suggests Ali ask the woman to dance, and she accepts. They fall in love. Emmi's family and coworkers are unsupportive of her decision, and reject Emmi. When Emmi and Ali return from vacation, Emmi's community have moved on to new scandals, but without external stress on their relationship, Emmi and Ali need to reconsider the terms of their relationship.

Trivia

Original film title "Angst essen Seele auf" — is in wrong german, and is literally translated as "Fear eat soul".
The film was shot in just nearly two weeks, and was planned as an excercise in film-making for Fassbinder, to fill in the time in his scedule between the work on two other films "Martha" and "Effi Briest" .
Ali is played by Fassbinder's life partner on that time - El Hedi ben Salem. Ben Salem commited suicide in a jail several years later. Barbara is played by an austrian actress Barbara Valentin
, who was in the 1980-es a life partner of Freddie Mercury - a singer of the band Queen.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
himself did a cameo appearance as one of the Emmi's sons.

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