Fassbinder - Angst essen Seele auf / Fear Eats the Soul [x264]

Angst essen Seele auf (1974)

(Fear Eats the Soul)



Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Release Date: March 1974, Germany

Runtime: 89 min



Video: x264/MP4, CRF 18, 640x464

Audio: Nero AAC: NDAAC-LC 128 kbit

Language: German

Subtitles: English

Plot Synopsis



Rainer Werner Fassbinder not only directed Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf), but also scripted the film, designed the sets, and produced. Brigitte Mira heads the cast as a lonely German cleaning woman, who enters into an affair with equally lonely - and much, much younger - Moroccan mechanic El Hedi Ben Salem. They marry, despite the shocked, bigoted reactions of those around them. This thinly disguised remake of Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (cult favorite Sirk was one of Fassbinder's personal heroes) won the international critic's prize at the Cannes Film Festival.