Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) - Fassbinder
Faithfully borrowing the storyline of a classic Hollywood melodrama, All that Heaven Allows (1955, dir. Douglas Sirk), Fassbinder criticizes postwar racism as a continuation of the Nazi past and also reifying the stranger as an object of orientalist fascination, while playing with traditional gender roles. #rainerwernerfassbinder #alifeareatsthesoul #immigration #orientalism #germancinema