Directed by:
Rainer Werner FassbinderScreenplay:
Rainer Werner FassbinderCinematography:
Jürgen JürgesCast:
Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Irm Hermann, Elma Karlowa, Anita Bucher, Gusti Kreissl, Doris Mattes, Margit Symo, Katharina Herberg, Lilo Pempeit (more)Plots(1)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder not only directed Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf), 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. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Brigitte Mira](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/278/162278181_eaab5b.jpg)
Brigitte Mira
German Empire
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Satan's Brew (1976)
![El Hedi ben Salem](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/277/277920_ff35bb.jpg)
El Hedi ben Salem
Morocco
Best movies:
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Martha (1974) (TV movie)
Jail Bait (1973) (TV movie)
![Irm Hermann](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/909/159909705_7f761b.jpg)
Irm Hermann
German Empire
Best movies:
Der Zauberberg (1982)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
![Elma Karlowa](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/966/157966813_b609bf.jpg)
Elma Karlowa
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) (TV movie)
Anita Bucher
Best movies:
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Gusti Kreissl
German Empire
Best movies:
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971)
Doris Mattes
Best movies:
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) (TV movie)
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)
![Margit Symo](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/176/160176820_d9f197.jpg)
Margit Symo
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Katharina Herberg
German Empire
Best movies:
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
![Lilo Pempeit](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/405/159405968_fe2dd6.jpg)
Lilo Pempeit
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) (TV movie)
Peter Gauhe
Best movies:
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Effi Briest (1974)
World on a Wire (1973) (TV movie)
![Marquard Bohm](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/605/158605950_b5a31e.jpg)
Marquard Bohm
German Empire
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Kings of the Road (1976)
![Walter Sedlmayr](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/806/160806094_1d7abf.jpg)
Walter Sedlmayr
German Empire
Best movies:
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Fist-Right of Freedom (1975)
World on a Wire (1973) (TV movie)
Hannes Gromball
German Empire
Best movies:
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)
Satan's Brew (1976)
![Hark Bohm](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/289/162289356_65055c.jpg)
Hark Bohm
German Empire
Best movies:
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Underground (1995)
Rudolf Waldemar Brem
Germany
Best movies:
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Martha (1974) (TV movie)
Jail Bait (1973) (TV movie)
Karl Scheydt
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) (TV movie)
Peter Moland
Best movies:
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)
World on a Wire (1973) (TV movie)
![Barbara Valentin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/396/396109_6e40e4.jpg)
Barbara Valentin
German Empire
Best movies:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (series)
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Martha (1974) (TV movie)
Helga Ballhaus
Best movies:
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Whity (1971)
Tatort (1970) (series)