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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
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Shared genres: Drama.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1978 2h 4m DEU
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film recounts the last few days in the life of Elvira (Volker Spengler), a transsexual woman formerly known as Erwin. After being beaten up for trying to buy sex in a park, she returns home to her longtime lover Christoph (Karl Scheydt), who's been away for six weeks. Christoph abuses her verbally and physically, and when he announces he's leaving for good, she desperately tries to stop him, only to be rescued by her friend Zora (Ingrid Caven). We watch as Elvira and Zora visit a slaughterhouse and the orphanage where Elvira grew up, and her later contacts with her family and former lover Anton Saitz (Gottfried John), as she attempts to come to terms with the consequences of her decision to change her sex. The film ends with the suicide of the main character after her subliminal cries for help go by unnoticed.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Eva Mattes
Marie-Ann
Günther Kaufmann
Chauffeur
Lilo Pempeit
Schwester Gudrun
Isolde Barth
Sybille
Ursula Lillig
Putzfrau (uncredited)
Volker Spengler
Erwin/Elvira Weishaupt
Karl Scheydt
Hacker
Elisabeth Trissenaar
Irene Weishaupt