Directed by Shahbaz Noshir • 2002 • Germany
Director Shahbaz Noshir’s 2002 film about an encounter with prejudice is titled ANGST ISST SEELE AUF (FEAR EATS THE SOUL), a grammatically correct version of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1974 film ANGST ESSEN SEELE AUF (FEAR EAT SOUL). It has the same lead actress (Brigitte Mira), director of photography (Jürgen Jürges), and editor (Thea Eymèsz).
Brigitte Mira’s acting career spanned more than six decades and included such films as Werner Herzog’s THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s SATAN’S BREW and ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL. This interview with her was conducted in Berlin in 2003.
ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL editor Thea Eymèsz worked with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder on sixteen of his films, beginning with 1969’s GODS OF THE PLAGUE and ending with 1976’s SATAN’S BREW. In the following interview, conducted in her Munich apartment in 2003, Eymèsz talks for the first time on...
Professor Jeff Smith illustrates how Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s deliberate blocking and tableau compositions accentuate the social divisions that crisscross his 1974 masterpiece.
