Baltic Cinema: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst Essen Seele Auf) - Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s heart-on-sleeve melodrama of a doomed romance across racial and age divides probes social hypocrisy with feeling.

Baltic Cinema: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst Essen Seele Auf)
Thu 25 June | 18:30
£6/£4.50* per person

Rainer Werner Fassbinder FDR / W Germany 1974 92’ (12A)
35mm transferred to digital video | In German with English subtitles

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s heart-on-sleeve melodrama of a doomed romance across racial and age divides probes social hypocrisy with feeling.

One evening in Munich, an elderly cleaning lady (Brigitte Mira) escapes from the rain into a bar frequented by immigrants. To her surprise, the jukebox plays an old German tango and a handsome young Moroccan man (El Hedi ben Salem) asks her to dance... So far, so like a fairy tale, but this tenderest of romances is soon exposed to the brutal reality of racism and ageism.

This unconventional love story combines lucid social analysis with devastating emotional power. Not a shot is wasted in this bold reworking of Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows, which unfolds with gripping simplicity. (BFI)

‘A triumph of intersectionality – as no one used to say in 1974 – and a triumph of love.’
—Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Doors open 18:00; Film starts 18:30. Pop-up cinema bar open from 18:00 for drinks.
Please note we cannot offer refunds on this event.
*Concessions: under 18s, unwaged & 65+

Screening as part of Refugee Week – click here for other Refugee Week events.