My Name Is Not Ali (2011)

My Name Is Not Ali (2011)

2011-11-07 Egypt, Germany 98 Min. PG-13
5.8 5 votes

Overview

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.

Cast

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

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