En un café al que acuden los trabajadores inmigrantes, Emmi Kurowski, una viuda de unos sesenta años, conoce a Ali, un marroquí treintañero. Inducido por la dueña del bar, Ali invita a Emmi a bailar, hablan, la acompaña a casa y, al día siguiente, se queda a vivir con ella. Esta relación provoca un gran escándalo.
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- Título original: Angst essen Seele auf
- Dirección: Rainer Werner Fassinder
- Interpretes: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi Ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann, Elma Kazlova, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- País e idioma: Alemania del este. Alemán
- Año: 1974
- Duración: 93 minutos
- Programa: Reencuentros
- Edición: 2026
- Colaboración con el Instituto Goethe
- Notas de restauración: Restauración 4K y digitalización realizada en 2024 por su 50º aniversario.
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The hardship and angst manifest in Ali are expressed in the famous German title: Angst essen Seele auf, fear eats the soul, words that sound like the remains of a Stoic or Nietzschean maxim. Emmi, who works as a cleaner, is seduced by Ali’s beauty and youth; she is wise and realistic. The words of the title are her own, spoken to Ali when his life seems bleak. Later, when Ali’s sadness turns into a physical illness, Emmi’s words seem, again, to summarize Fassbinder’s solidarity with a classless society and his advocacy of sexual liberation rooted in love. These people, she says, come here and experience hardship, and then they die young.
This immaculately staged drama, a loose remake of Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows, is Fassbinder’s assault on the intolerance of 1970s German society. An older woman, played by the incomparable Brigitte Mira, and a younger Moroccan man (El Hedi ben Salem) fall in love and marry, revealing an ugly mess of prejudice and hatred beneath the polite veneer of their Munich neighbourhood. The performances are flawless; the themes remain timely.
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