My Name Is Not Ali
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
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El Hedi ben Salem
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Rainer Werner Fassbi…
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Abd El-Kader Jarrary
Played Self (Ben Salem's So…
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Hafsia Mellaim
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Viola Shafik
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Renate Leiffer
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Irm Hermann
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Karl Scheydt
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Rudolf Waldemar Brem
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Hans Hirschmüller
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Hamdan Jarrary
Played Self (Ben Salem's so…
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Zeina Jarrary
Played Self (Ben Salem's si…
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Ahmed Lecomte
Played Self (Ben Salem's ne…
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Reqaya Zkoura
Played Self (Ben Salem's ni…
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Chadhlia Zkoura
Played Self (Ben Salem's ni…
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Najat Ghribi
Played Self (Ben Salem's da…
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Kurt Raab
Played Self (archive footag…
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Thea Eymèsz
Played Self
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Nikolaus Notter
Played Self
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Marie Notter
Played Self
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