Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

At work the morning after her tryst with a Moroccan mechanic (“Ali,” the title character), Munich cleaning woman Emmi (Brigitte Mira) with colleagues (Gusti Kreissl et al), who don’t know her conversation is a disguised reference to her new romance, in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats The Soul, 1974.

Both surprised at their cordial meeting after she sought refuge in his favorite Munich bar, Ali (El Hedi ben Salem) has walked Emmi (Brigitte Mira) to her modest apartment, where they share minutia and philosophy and choose to continue, in writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats The Soul, 1974.

First scene for Irm Hermann, one of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s most frequent collaborators, as Krista, and the director himself as her grouchy husband Eugen, receiving an unexpected visit from her widowed mother Emmi (Brigitte Mira) who drops her bombshell about her new lover, in Ali: Fear Eats The Soul, 1974.