What is Ali: Fear Eats the Soul / Chinese Roulette about?

Double Feature: ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL, 1974, 93 min. When robust young Moroccan guest worker Ali and quiet, unassuming Emmi, a white German woman easily 20 years his senior, meet in a bar, the chemistry is palpable and the two become a couple. But 1970s Germany is not kind to cross-generational, cross-racial relationships, and Emmi and Ali find their romance suddenly up against a closely guarded barrier of hostility. In German with English subtitles. CHINESE ROULETTE, 1976, 96 min. Industrial magnate Gerhard Christ takes his longtime French mistress Irene on a weekend getaway to his luxurious countryside chateau but gets quite a shock when he discovers his wife Ariane and disabled teenage daughter Angela already at the manse. Angela devises a diabolical and psychologically vicious truth game of "Chinese Roulette" for the adults to play. In German with English subtitles.

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What is Ali: Fear Eats the Soul / Chinese Roulette about?: Double Feature: ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL, 1974, 93 min. When robust young Moroccan guest worker Ali and quiet, unassuming Emmi, a white German woman easily 20 years his senior, meet in a bar, the chemistry is palpable and the two become a couple. But 1970s Germany is not kind to cross-generational, cross-racial relationships, and Emmi and Ali find their romance suddenly up against a closely guarded barrier of hostility. In German with English subtitles.

CHINESE ROULETTE, 1976, 96 min. Industrial magnate Gerhard Christ takes his longtime French mistress Irene on a weekend getaway to his luxurious countryside chateau but gets quite a shock when he discovers his wife Ariane and disabled teenage daughter Angela already at the manse. Angela devises a diabolical and psychologically vicious truth game of "Chinese Roulette" for the adults to play. In German with English subtitles.