Essay by critic Chris Fujiwara in container.

Features: introduction from 2003 by filmmaker Todd Haynes; interviews from 2003 with actor Brigitte Mira and editor Thea Eymèsz; Shahbaz Noshir's 2002 short "Angst isst Seele auf," which reunites Mira, Eymèsz, and Jürges to tell the story, based on real events, of an attack by neo-Nazis on a foreign actor while on his way to a stage performance of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's screenplay; "Signs of vigorous life : New German Cinema," a 1976 BBC program about the film movement of which Fassbinder was a part; scene from Fassbinder's 1970 film "The American soldier" that inspired "Ali: Fear eats the soul"; trailer.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1974.

Uncompressed mono, full screen 1.37:1.

Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Irm Hermann, Elma Karlowa, Anita Bucher, Gusti Kreissl.

Much to the consternation of her family, a German woman in her sixties falls in love with and marries a much younger Moroccan immigrant.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

This is a Blu-ray disc made for Blu-ray disc players and will not play in standard DVD players.

For private home use only.

In German with English subtitles.