Fear Eats the Soul (Angst Essen Seele Auf)

by Laura Cottingham

In Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Fear Eats the Soul (Angst Essen Seele Auf, 1974) Emma (Brigitte Mira), a working-class widow and former member of the Nazi party, marries Ali (El Hedi ben Salem), a much younger Moroccan migrant worker. Set in Munich during the 1970s, the film melds the conventions of melodrama with a radical sensibility to present a portrait of racism and everyday hypocrisy in post-war Germany.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1839021799
• ISBN13: 9781839021794
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 7.3"