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Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (1974)

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Cinematography by Jürgen Jürges

93 min64 frames

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What is Ali: Fear Eats The Soul about?

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 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.

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Sampled across 64 frames, the coverage of Ali: Fear Eats The Soul leans on medium shots (58% of the sample) and wide compositions (23%). Cinematographer Jürgen Jürges keeps 59% of it in soft, naturalistic light. The production design places the film in the 1970s.

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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (1974) are #34302d, #d4d3ca, #d3c9b0, #f5f5f2, #0f0f0e, #afafab — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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