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GERMANY · 1973

Fear Eats the Soul

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
New German Cinema
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Synopsis

Sung-geun wants his son, Jong-hun, to be a Major-leaguer. Someday, they find a dying man.

Year1973
CountryGermany
DirectorRainer Werner Fassbinder
MovementNew German Cinema
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I mean, a film like All That Heaven Allows, that Fassbinder remade in Fear Eats the Soul, is a very explicit political film. It’s about women being trapped by expectations, by rules, by class. That’s what melodrama has always been about, in the way that I perceive it and have tried to reinvent it.
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