Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

UPC: 715515014120

Studio: Criterion

Summary: 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. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Category: Drama

Features: New digital transfer, with restored image and sound
Original theatrical trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation
Introduction by director Todd Haynes
Interviews with actress Brigitte Mira and editor Thea Eym�sz
Short film Angst isst Seele auf (2002)
From the BBC: "Signs of Vigorous Life: New German Cinema"
Excerpt from The American Soldier featuring Margarethe von Trotta
Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition
16-page booklet, featuring a new essay by critic Chris Fujiwara and a reprint of Michael T�teberg's introduction to the published screenplay

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Format: DVD

Release Date: 06/24/2003

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Pre-1954 Standard

Audio: DD1 Dolby Digital Mono

Runtime: 93 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) German

Subtitles: English

Chapters: Side #1 -- Feature
1. Logos/Opening Credits [:12]
2. "You Dance With Me?" [1:21]
3. Other Countries, Other Customs [7:31]
4. Kif-Kif [4:55]
5. "Fear Eat Soul" [6:28]
6. Filthy Pigs [1:58]
7. It's Not a Joke [2:48]
8. The Bar [3:57]
9. "We Marry?" [3:20]
10. Caviar Is Good for Love [5:25]
11. "I Call Him Ali" [5:20]
12. Libelle [2:42]
13. A Little Party [4:34]
14. Outcasts [6:57]
15. Time Heals All Wounds [5:29]
16. Couscous [7:44]
17. Foreign Mentality [5:08]
18. "I Need You" [6:53]
19. The Black Gypsy [2:27]
20. Incurable [5:25]
21. Color Bars [2:32]

Cast and Crew: Rainer Werner Fassbinder  Director 
Rainer Werner Fassbinder  Producer 
Rainer Werner Fassbinder  Screenwriter 
Brigitte Mira  Actor 
El Hedi Ben Salem  Actor 
Barbara Valentin  Actor 
Irm Hermann  Actor 
Peter Gauhe  Actor 
Rainer Werner Fassbinder  Actor 
Liselotte Eder  Actor 
Gusti Kreissl  Actor 
Elma Karlowa  Actor 
Lilo Pempeit  Actor 
Hark Bohm  Actor 
Peter Moland  Actor 
Margit Symo  Actor 
Marquard Bohm  Actor 
Walter Sedlmayr  Actor 
Hannes Gromball  Actor 
Rudolf Waldemar Brem  Actor 
Karl Scheydt  Actor 

Country: West Germany