TY - ADVS AU - Rainer Werner Fassbinder AU - Rainer Werner Fassbinder AU - Brigitte Mira AU - El Hedi ben Salem AU - Barbara Valentin TI - Angst essen Seele auf AV - PN1997 .A647 1974 PY - 2003/// CY - United States PB - Criterion Collection N1 - N2 - From The Criterion Collection: The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker’s 1955 All That Heaven Allows. A lonely widow (Brigitte Mira) meets a much younger Arab worker (El Hedi ben Salem) 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. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Fassbinder expertly wields the emotional power of classic Hollywood melodrama to expose the racial tensions underlying contemporary German culture ER -