My Name Is Not Ali (2011)

11/07/2011 (EG) • 1h 38m

Documentary

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.

Top Billed Cast

El Hedi ben Salem

Self (archive footage)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Self (archive footage)

Abd El-Kader Jarrary

Self (Ben Salem's Son)

Hafsia Mellaim

Self (Ben Salem's former wife)

Viola Shafik

Self (voice)


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Status

Released

Original Language

Arabic

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

woman director

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