My Name Is Not Ali

Synopsis

Travelling between Germany, France and Morocco, 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 : 40 | Popularity : 3%

Renate Leiffer

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Irm Hermann

Self

Age : 81 | Popularity : 4%

Karl Scheydt

Self

Age : 68 | Popularity : 3%

Rudolf Waldemar Brem

Self

Age : 68 | Popularity : 4%

Hans Hirschmüller

Self

Age : 84 | Popularity : 7%

Viola Shafik

Self (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Self (archive footage)

Age : 37 | Popularity : 19%

Crew

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

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