Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, Gauhe, Peter	...	(Director)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder	...	(Writer)
Brigitte Mira	...	Emmi Kurowski (Emanuela ben Salem M'Barek Mohammed Mustapha)
El Hedi ben Salem	...	Ali (El Hedi ben Salem M'Barek Mohammed Mustapha)
Barbara Valentin	...	Barbara
Irm Hermann	...	Krista
Karl Scheydt	...	Albert Kurowski
Marquard Bohm	...	Gruber
Walter Sedlmayr	...	Angermayer
Doris Mattes	...	Mrs. Angermeyer
Lilo Pempeit	...	Mrs. Münchmeyer
Gusti Kreissl	...	Paula
Margit Symo	...	Hedwig
Elisabeth Bertram	...	Frieda
Helga Ballhaus	...	Yolanda
Elma Karlowa	...	Mrs. Kargus
Anita Bucher	...	Mrs. Ellis

Summary: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, already the director of almost twenty films by the age of 29, paid homage to his cinematic hero, Douglas Sirk, with this updated version of Sirk's All That Heaven Allows. Lonely widow Emmi Kurowsky (Brigitte Mira) meets Arab worker Ali (El Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. To their own surprise (and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies) they fall in love. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen seele auf), Fassbinder expertly uses the emotional power of the melodrama to underscore the racial tensions threatening German culture.