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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.

  • Documentary

Top billed cast

  • Photo of El Hedi ben SalemEl Hedi ben SalemSelf (archive footage)
  • Photo of Rainer Werner FassbinderRainer Werner FassbinderSelf (archive footage)
  • Photo of Abd El-Kader JarraryAbd El-Kader JarrarySelf (Ben Salem's Son)
  • Photo of Hafsia MellaimHafsia MellaimSelf (Ben Salem's former wife)
  • Photo of Viola ShafikViola ShafikSelf (voice)
  • Photo of Renate LeifferRenate LeifferSelf
  • Photo of Irm HermannIrm HermannSelf
  • Photo of Karl ScheydtKarl ScheydtSelf
  • Photo of Rudolf Waldemar BremRudolf Waldemar BremSelf
  • Photo of Hans HirschmüllerHans HirschmüllerSelf

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