Fear eats the soul. 


Drama from 1974  Rainer Werner Fassbinder 


Brigitte Mira   El Hedi ben Salem. 


The Film: 

Escaping the rain, the widow cleaning lady enters a pub frequented by foreign workers, she meets Ali, a Moroccan twenty years her junior. They dance and she invites him home. Lonely and longing for companionship they marry to the outrage of Emmi's children and the dismay of friends and workers.

Emmi and Ali try to lives their lives normally but as the prejudice that bound them together from the outside dissipates, their relationship begins to unravel from within