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Impossible Love in Rainer W. Fassbinder's Film "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul" Simona J. Sivkoff 33023029 GERM 302 Dr. S. Taubeneck UBC 2003-04-20 Rainer W. Fassbinder is a German filmmaker who led a turbulent and brief life, creating many non conventional and controversial films and theatre plays. His personal experiences as a homosexual and as a non- mainstream director and actor have contributed immensely to his heightened criticism and susceptibility to the problems of minorities in Germany.1 Fassbinder's critical eye is sharply focused on the society and its deeply rooted prejudices, which in the decades after the Stunde Null have been successfully camouflaged and even claimed not to be existent any more. The filmmaker in his "Ali: Angst Essen Seele Auf" (1974), performs a life dissection of the German "friendly" society, and reveals the threatening and harsh reality for foreigners and unconventionally behaving individuals. The film does not merely tackle the sore themes of...

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