Film screening
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

New German Cinema

Sun, 18.06.2023
4:30 PM Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore

We invite you to Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. This screening is part of our ongoing film series German Cinema in Focus. The current section is from the art movement: New German Cinema.

One evening, Emmi, a 60-year-old cleaner, stops at a pub visited by foreign guest workers. She is simply waiting for the rain to stop and orders a Coke to kill time. One of the men asks her to dance; Ali is a big, bearded Moroccan and much younger than Emmi. His real name is completely different, but all the guest workers from his country are simply called Ali in Germany, as he tells his partner. He had really only asked the strange old woman to dance because the stout blond bar owner Barbara and her guests were about to start laughing at her. But then Ali sits down with Emmi and the two talk about their loneliness.

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1973 | 91 min.| col. | German with English subtitles

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is a melodrama which revolves around the romance that develops between an elderly widowed German woman, and a middle-aged Moroccan migrant worker in postwar West Germany. Emmi’s family and neighbours criticise their spontaneous marriage due to which they are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.

Entry free. All are welcome.