Ali : fear eats the soul / the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation presents a Tango Film production ; written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassinder.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 198 | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: German Original language: German Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 198.Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [2014]Distributor: [New York] : The Criterion Collection Description: 1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leafletContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- German title: Angst essen Seel auf
- Director of photography, Jürgen Jürges ; editor, Thea Eymèsz.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Blu-ray
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Main Library | DVD | WORLD Ali fear | Available | 33111009890332 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A lonely widow meets a much younger Arab worker 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.
Blu-ray, region A, fullscreen (1.37:1); mono.; requires Blu-ray player.
Title from container.
German dialogue; English subtitles.
Brigitte Mira, El Hedi Ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann.
Director of photography, Jürgen Jürges ; editor, Thea Eymèsz.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1974.
A lonely widow meets a much younger Arab worker 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.
Special features: Introduction for 2003 by filmmaker Todd Haynes; Interviews from 2003 with actor Brigitte Mira and editor Thea Eymèsz; Shahbaz Noshir's 2002 short "Angst isst Seele auf", which reunites Mira, Eymèsz, and Jürges to tell the story, based on real events, of an attack by neo-Nazis on a foreign actor while on his way to a stage performance of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's screenplay; "Signs of vigorous life: new German cinema", a 1976 BBC program about the film movement of which Fassbinder was a part; Scene from Fassbinder's 1970 film "The American Soldier" that inspired "Ali: fear eats the soul"; trailer; Plus: an essay by critic Chris Fujiwara.