My Name Is Not Ali (2011)
11/07/2011 (EG) • 1h 38m
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 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.
Top Billed Cast
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Self (Ben Salem's Son)
Self (Ben Salem's former wife)
Self (voice)
Self
Self
Self
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