My Name Is Not Ali (2011)
Travelling between Germany, France, and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unknown life story of El Hedi Ben Salem through interviews with his companions and family members as well as archival material. With openness and slight naivety, the interviewees explain how “Ali” became an oriental object of projection for the Fassbinder group, while El Hedi Ben Salem, the human being, was overlooked in order to establish the foreigner as “other.” A no-frills examination of a piece of German and Munich film history.
- Released
- 2011-11-07
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Viola Shafik
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 from 6 votes
Cast
- El Hedi ben Salem as Self (archive footage)
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Self (archive footage)
- Abd El-Kader Jarrary as Self (Ben Salem's Son)
- Hafsia Mellaim as Self (Ben Salem's former wife)
- Viola Shafik as Self (voice)
- Renate Leiffer as Self
- Irm Hermann as Self
- Karl Scheydt as Self
- Rudolf Waldemar Brem as Self
- Hans Hirschmüller as Self
- Hamdan Jarrary as Self (Ben Salem's son)
- Zeina Jarrary as Self (Ben Salem's sister)
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