Fear Eats the Soul. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. German with English subtitles, Feature Film. Ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann. Fassbinder draws on the formula of the classic American tear-jerker to tell the outrageous, touching story of a bumpy love affair between a German floorwasher and an inarticulate Arab mechanic.
Fear Eats the Soul is a moving romance, a perverse social comedy, and a biting drama.
With his warm humanism and cool irony, Fassbinder is able to create art from material that in the hands of most directors would never transcend soap opera. German with English subtitles. Sander, a leading figure of the women's movement in Germany, is the film's writer, director, and star. 2 VHS videocassettes. Bleierne Zeit, Die.