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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf) is a 1974 film from West Germany written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.Emmi (Brigitte Mira) is a dowdy cleaning lady well into her sixties. One day, when it's raining particularly hard while she's walking home from work, she ducks into a bar to stay dry. The bar caters to African and Middle Eastern immigrants. One of those immigrants is Ali (El Hedi ben Salem), a tall, handsome, taciturn man from Morocco who immigrated to Germany looking for work. Ali rather surprisingly overlooks the two very attractive women in the bar (one of whom is the bartender) and asks Emmi to dance. Then he offers to escort her home. Then they sleep together.Soon they are married, despite the fact that Ali is barely half Emmi's age. Unfortunately this tender romance is spoiled by the virulent racism and intolerance of Emmi's family and all her neighbors and friends. German hatred for black people and for Muslims, the latter being at a fever pitch after the terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics, threatens to break the couple up.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Creator Cameo: Fassbinder has a small role as Emmi's son-in-law Eugen. | |
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Green-Eyed Monster: While most people are racist towards the new couple, the ladies at the bar are jealous. The attractive young woman who's clearly interested in Ali calls Emmi a "whore." | |
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All of the Other Reindeer | |
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All of the Other Reindeer: Pretty much everyone is cruel to poor Emmi. | |
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Leave the Camera Running: A hallmark of Fassbinder's career, here used for several shots of Ali and/or Emmi within doorways. First, there's a long, lingering shot from a distance of the two of them, alone at a table in a fancy restaurant. Then there's a similar shot of Emmi after Ali abandons her to go off to the sexy bartender's apartment. Then there's still another similar shot of Ali framed in the doorway of the bartender's bedroom. | |
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Gossipy Hens: Emmi's nasty neighbors, especially Frau Karges, who literally runs to another neighbor's door to spread the news when she sees Emmi bringing a tall African man home. | |
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I Have No Son! | |
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I Have No Son!: "You can forget you have children," spits Emmi's son Albert after Emmi delivers the news of her marriage. Later her other son Bruno comes back to make amends, but clearly only because he needs Emmi for babysitting duty. | |
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