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Emmi, a German woman in her mid-sixties, falls in love with Ali, a Moroccan immigrant worker around twenty-five years younger. They marry, despite the shocked, bigoted reactions of those around them. When the folks calm down a bit, Emmi and Ali';;s relationship grows uncertain.
6 January 1926, Munich, Germany
7 October 1938
4 October 1942, Munich, Germany
12 March 1932, Zagreb, Yugoslavia [now Croatia]
29 November 1948, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
1940
20 April 1910, Hamburg, Germany
18 May 1939, Hamburg, Germany
3 May 1940
6 October 1922, Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]
21 March 1932, Germany
8 June 1940
27 May 1935, Oberstdorf, Bavaria, Germany
13 September 1913, Budapest, Austria-Hungary
27 June 1941, Hamburg, Germany
1935, Morocco
2 January 1904, Munich, Germany
15 December 1940, Vienna, Austria
April 26, 2017
It even manages something like a happy ending without sugar-coating the still poignantly relevant themes.Timely and heartbreaking, some 43 years after its debut.
May 25, 2011
This 1974 film stands as one of Fassbinder's sturdiest achievements, posed between the low-budget funkiness of his early features and the mannerism of his late period.
June 26, 2008
Technically flawless, deceptively simple and avoiding excesses, it is about problems that are timely and timeless in implications.
March 27, 2017
One of the most beautiful films ever made, plain and simple.
January 26, 2006
Fassbinder uses dramatic and visual excess to push everyday events to extremes, achieving a degree of political and psychological truth not accessible through mere social realism.
March 30, 2017
Fassbinder made so many incredible films, but this is certainly up there with his finest.
April 14, 2016
It's surely the sheer, unvarnished humanity on display that's the film's greatest success.
March 30, 2017
The performances of Brigitte Mira and El Hedi Ben Salem as Emmi and Ali are superb; they act with instant sympathy and charm and in their own way, they are the most purely lovable characters I have ever seen on a movie screen.
April 02, 2017
The performances are flawless; the themes remain timely.
June 03, 2014
Fassbinder's historicism is a crucial aspect of his modernism: he didn't just make use of prior forms, he quoted them, and derived from them the ironies implicit in his melodramatic styles.
May 09, 2005
It is, rather, another quite courageous attempt by Mr. Fassbinder to develop a film style free of the kind of realistic conventions that sentimentalize life's mysteries.
