My Name Is Not Ali

My Name Is Not Ali (2011)

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 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.

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  • Release Date: 2011-11-07
  • Runtime: 1h 38min
  • Director: Viola Shafik

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Cast

  • El Hedi ben Salem

    Self (archive footage)

  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder

    Self (archive footage)

  • Abd El-Kader Jarrary

    Self (Ben Salem's Son)

  • Hafsia Mellaim

    Self (Ben Salem's former wife)

  • Viola Shafik

    Self (voice)

  • Renate Leiffer

    Self

  • Irm Hermann

    Self

  • Karl Scheydt

    Self

  • Rudolf Waldemar Brem

    Self

  • Hans Hirschmüller

    Self

  • Hamdan Jarrary

    Self (Ben Salem's son)

  • Zeina Jarrary

    Self (Ben Salem's sister)

  • Ahmed Lecomte

    Self (Ben Salem's nephew)

  • Reqaya Zkoura

    Self (Ben Salem's niece)

  • Chadhlia Zkoura

    Self (Ben Salem's niece)

  • Najat Ghribi

    Self (Ben Salem's daughter-in-law)

  • Kurt Raab

    Self (archive footage)

  • Thea Eymèsz

    Self

  • Nikolaus Notter

    Self

  • Marie Notter

    Self

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