Angst isst Seele auf

Shot with striking immediacy by a subjective camera Angst isst Seele auf assumes the point of view of a black actor in Germany dealing with racist abuse as he prepares to appear in a play based on Fassbinders film about the taboo relationship between an older German woman and an Arab man Sharing the same lead actress Brigitte Mira cinematographer Jürgen Jürges and editor Thea Eymèsz as in Rainer Werner Fassbinders 1974 Film Angst essen Seele auf these twin works offer a searing indictment of prejudice within German society