- Film Review
- Reviewed By David Parkinson
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4 out of 5
Inspired by Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (1955), this affecting film from director Rainer Werner Fassbinder uses an unconventional love story to attack the prejudices inherent in German society in the early 1970s. As the widowed cleaner and the Moroccan mechanic whose cross-cultural, age-gap romance is frowned upon by their family and friends, Brigitte Mira and El Hedi Ben Salem are so convincing it's easy to forget they are merely playing roles. Fassbinder also impresses as Mira's loathsome son-in-law, but it's the stylised realism and deceptive simplicity of his direction that elevates this incisive drama above the more popular period pieces of his later career.
Plot Summary
Romantic drama directed by Rainer Werner Fassbender. A love affair blossoms between a Moroccan immigrant and an older German widow. But once they are married, they find their happiness is checked by the prejudices in their community.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Emmi
- Brigitte Mira
- Ali
- El Hedi Ben Salem
- Barbara
- Barbara Valentin
- Krista
- Irm Hermann
- Bruno
- Peter Gauhe
- Albert
- Karl Scheydt
- Eugen
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Crew
- Director
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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