Angst essen Seele auf

Rainer Werner Fassbinder not only directed <![CDATA[<i>]]>Ali: Fear Eats the Soul <![CDATA[</i>]]> (<![CDATA[<i>]]>Angst essen Seele auf <![CDATA[</i>]]>), 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 <![CDATA[<i>]]>All That Heaven Allows<![CDATA[</i>]]> (cult favorite Sirk was one of Fassbinder's personal heroes) won the international critic's prize at the Cannes Film Festival.