ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL

Cinema "K. SUNS" 02.10 / 18.00

ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, fiction, Germany, 1974, 94'

An almost accidental romance is kindled between a German woman in her mid-sixties and a Moroccan migrant worker around twenty-five years younger. They abruptly decide to marry, appalling everyone around them.

Film in German with English subtitles and Latvian translation.

Laima Graždanoviča, 2ANNAS curator:

The lonely widow Emmy accidentally falls in love with Ali, a migrant worker from Morocco twenty-five years younger than she is. Their love affair leads them to a marriage that society refuses to accept. Suddenly Emmy has become the “whore of the foreigner”. The couple runs away to hide from the racial prejudices and the ruling hypocrisy around them, but eventually the rules of the game change.
The renowned director of “Fear Eats the Soul” plays with the conventions and extremes characteristic of Hollywood drama and makes us understand that portraying a deep psychological and political world is not always possible with the help of social realism.

The work and life of famous German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) is filled with challenges against the bias governing the society. The film surprises us by asking questions about race, sexuality, immigration and morals that are still as relevant today as they were 42 years ago.