My Name Is Not Ali

November. 07,2011      
Rating:
6.7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

El Hedi ben Salem as  Self (archive footage)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder as  Self (archive footage)
Renate Leiffer as  Self
Irm Hermann as  Self
Karl Scheydt as  Self
Hans Hirschmüller as  Self
Kurt Raab as  Self (archive footage)

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