My Name Is Not Ali

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

El Hedi ben Salem

Self (archive footage)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 8%

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Self (archive footage)

Age : 37 | Popularity : 31%

Abd El-Kader Jarrary

Self (Ben Salem's Son)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Hafsia Mellaim

Self (Ben Salem's former wife)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Viola Shafik

Self (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Renate Leiffer

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Irm Hermann

Self

Age : 82 | Popularity : 30%

Karl Scheydt

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 13%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Viola Shafik
Writing	Writer	Viola Shafik
Crew	Cinematography	Viola Shafik
Editing	Editor	Doreen Ignaszewski
Production	Producer	Onsi Abou Seif
Sound	Sound	Viola Shafik
Department	Role	Name

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