Angst essen Seele auf

Loneliness and social isolation ignite the relationship between a widow and a 20-year-old Moroccan guest worker. However, the relationship only experiences its true test when it is to be institutionalised in the form of a bourgeois marriage. A melodrama that analyses the disregard for minorities and the mechanisms of social oppression with cool brilliance. At once popular and bitterly ironic, Fassbinder seeks a broad audience without denying his personal obsessions and without losing any of his critical acuity.