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My Name Is Not Ali

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2011-11-07 • 1h 38m

Documentary

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.

Directors
Viola Shafik
Writters
Viola Shafik
Editors
Viola Shafik, Doreen Ignaszewski

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  1. El Hedi ben Salem

    El Hedi ben Salem

    Self (archive footage)

  2. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

    Rainer Werner Fassbinder

    Self (archive footage)

  3. Abd El-Kader Jarrary

    Abd El-Kader Jarrary

    Self (Ben Salem's Son)

  4. Hafsia Mellaim

    Hafsia Mellaim

    Self (Ben Salem's former wife)

  5. Viola Shafik

    Viola Shafik

    Self (voice)

  6. Renate Leiffer

    Renate Leiffer

    Self

  7. Irm Hermann

    Irm Hermann

    Self

  8. Karl Scheydt

    Karl Scheydt

    Self

  9. Rudolf Waldemar Brem

    Rudolf Waldemar Brem

    Self

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    Status
    Released
    Original Language
    German
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    Keywords
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