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My Name Is Not Ali

11/07/2011

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1hr 38min

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Documentary

STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • El Hedi ben Salem
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Abd El-Kader Jarrary
  • Hafsia Mellaim
  • Viola Shafik

    Director

  • Viola Shafik

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Mec Film

    Production Countries

  • Egypt
  • Germany

LANGUAGES

  • Arabic
  • German

Cast

El Hedi ben Salem

Self (archive footage)

Abd El-Kader Jarrary

Self (Ben Salem's Son)

Hafsia Mellaim

Self (Ben Salem's former wife)

Irm Hermann

Self

Karl Scheydt

Self

Rudolf Waldemar Brem

Self

Hans Hirschmüller

Self

Hamdan Jarrary

Self (Ben Salem's son)

Zeina Jarrary

Self (Ben Salem's sister)

Ahmed Lecomte

Self (Ben Salem's nephew)

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