Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (German: Angst essen Seele auf) is a 1974 West German melodrama film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Brigitte Mira and El Hedi ben Salem. The film won the International Federation of Film Critics award for best in-competition movie and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. It is considered one of Fassbinder's most powerful works and hailed by many as a masterpiece. The film revolves around the romance that develops between Emmi, an older German woman, and Ali, a Moroccan migrant worker in postwar West Germany.