My Name Is Not Ali
Film201198 min6.3/10 on TMDB
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Directed by Viola Shafik
The 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 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.
Cast & crew
El Hedi ben SalemSelf (archive footage)
Rainer Werner FassbinderSelf (archive footage)Abd El-Kader Jarrary
Abd El-Kader JarrarySelf (Ben Salem's Son)Hafsia Mellaim
Hafsia MellaimSelf (Ben Salem's former wife)Viola Shafik
Viola ShafikSelf (voice)
Renate LeifferSelf
Irm HermannSelf
Karl ScheydtSelf
Rudolf Waldemar Brem
Hans HirschmüllerHamdan Jarrary
Hamdan JarrarySelf (Ben Salem's son)Zeina Jarrary
Zeina JarrarySelf (Ben Salem's sister)Explore the crew
- Director
- Viola Shafik
- Writer
- Viola Shafik
- Editor
- Doreen Ignaszewski
- Producer
- Onsi Abou Seif