My Name Is Not Ali

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My Name Is Not Ali

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My Name Is Not Ali

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 archive 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.

Date: 11/07/2011

Rating: 5.8

Cast: El Hedi ben Salem, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Abd El-Kader Jarrary, Hafsia Mellaim, Viola Shafik, Renate Leiffer, Irm Hermann, Karl Scheydt, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Hans Hirschmüller, Hamdan Jarrary, Zeina Jarrary, Ahmed Lecomte, Reqaya Zkoura, Chadhlia Zkoura, Najat Ghribi, Kurt Raab, Thea Eymèsz, Nikolaus Notter, Marie Notter

El Hedi ben Salem