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My Name Is Not Ali (2011)

Nov 07, 2011 Documentary 1h 38m
58%
User Score
6.6/10

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.

Viola Shafik
Director

Top Billed Cast

El Hedi ben Salem
El Hedi ben Salem

Self (archive footage)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Self (archive footage)
Abd El-Kader Jarrary
Abd El-Kader Jarrary

Self (Ben Salem's Son)
Hafsia Mellaim
Hafsia Mellaim

Self (Ben Salem's former wife)
Viola Shafik
Viola Shafik

Self (voice)
Renate Leiffer
Renate Leiffer

Self
Irm Hermann
Irm Hermann

Self
Karl Scheydt
Karl Scheydt

Self
Rudolf Waldemar Brem
Rudolf Waldemar Brem

Self

Full Cast & Crew

Media

My Name is Not Ali by Viola Shafik (clip)
My Name is Not Ali by Viola Shafik (clip)
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