My Name Is Not Ali

My Name Is Not Ali

Movie 2011-11-07 1h 38m Documentary
★ 6.3 / 10 · 6 votes

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.

Status
Released
Released
2011-11-07
Runtime
1h 38m
Studios
Diogenes Film , Bärbel Mauch Film
Country
Egypt
Languages
Arabic, German
Links
IMDb, Letterboxd
Director
Viola Shafik
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 Hans Hirschmüller Hans Hirschmüller Self
Hamdan Jarrary Hamdan Jarrary Self (Ben Salem's son)
Zeina Jarrary Zeina Jarrary Self (Ben Salem's sister)
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