Ali: Fear Eats the Soul [Criterion Collection]

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

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

DVD FEATURES:

• Number of Discs: 1
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 (Pre-1954 Standard)
• Audio: Dolby Digital Mono
• Subtitle: Eng
• 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 Eymesz
  • 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 Toteberg's introduction to the published screenplay

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Brigitte Mira - Emmi
       El Hedi Ben Salem - Ali
       Barbara Valentin - Barbara
       Irm Hermann - Krista
       Peter Gauhe - Bruno
       Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Eugen
       Elma Karlowa

• Director:

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

• Producer:

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

• Screenwriter:

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

• Cinematographer:

  Jürgen Jürges

• Editor:

  Thea Eymèsz

• Makeup:

  Helga Kempke