My Name Is Not Ali

My Name Is Not Ali (2011)

6.3 98 min Movie
Documentary

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.

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Cast

El Hedi ben Salem El Hedi ben Salem Self (archive footage)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rainer Werner Fassbinder Self (archive footage)
Abd El-Kader Jarrary Abd El-Kader Jarrary Self (Ben Salem's Son)
Hafsia Mellaim Hafsia Mellaim Self (Ben Salem's former wife)
Viola Shafik Viola Shafik Self (voice)
Renate Leiffer Renate Leiffer Self
Irm Hermann Irm Hermann Self
Karl Scheydt Karl Scheydt Self
Rudolf Waldemar Brem Rudolf Waldemar Brem Self
Hans Hirschmüller Hans Hirschmüller Self
Hamdan Jarrary Hamdan Jarrary Self (Ben Salem's son)
Zeina Jarrary Zeina Jarrary Self (Ben Salem's sister)

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