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Angst essen Seele auf = Ali, fear eats the soul / Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation ; Tango Film Produktion nummer fünf ; ein film von Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
LIBRA DVD 006 781 disc 1-2 + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 198.
- Criterion collection ; 198
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Love--Drama.
- Love.
- Foreign workers.
- Social conditions.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Prejudices.
- Germany.
- Prejudices--Germany--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships--Germany--Drama.
- Germany--Social conditions--Drama.
- Foreign workers--Germany--Drama.
- Motion pictures, German.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Romance films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.+ booklet ([16] pages ; 19 cm).
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Special edition.
- Other Title:
- Ali, fear eats the soul
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection : Wellspring Media, [distributor], [2003]
- Language Note:
- In German with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, Dolby Digital
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love--to their own surprise, and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects the ethnic tensions within German society.
- Participant:
- Brigitte Mira, El Hedi Ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann, Elma Karlowa, Anita Bucher, Gusti Kreissl, Doris Mattes, Margit Symo.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Jürgen Jurges ; editor, Thea Eymèsz.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1974.
- Special features: Disc one: original theatrical trailer -- Disc two: introduction by director Todd Haynes; interviews with actress Brigitte Mira and editor Thea Eymesz; short film "Angst isst Seele auf" (2002); from the BBC: "Signs of vigorous life: new German cinema"; excerpt from "The American soldier: featuring Margarethe von Trotta; a 16-page booklet, featuring a new essay by critic Chris Fujiwara and a reprint of Michael Toteberg's introduction to the published screenplay.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1559409398
- OCLC:
- 52479898
- Publisher Number:
- 715515014120
- CC1591D Criterion Collection
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