El Hedi ben Salem
Birthday: 1936-01-01
Place of Birth: Morocco
Biography: El Hedi ben Salem was a Moroccan actor. He is best known as the lover and collaborator of provocative German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He died while in prison. Fassbinder dedicated his last film, Querelle (1982), to Salem. In 2012, a documentary on Salem's life entitled My Name Is Not Ali, premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival.
Movies
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown ...
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Tenderness of the Wolves
A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the ...
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, cau...
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Fox and His Friends
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things ...
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Martha
After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange,...
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When Fear Eats the Soul
Mixing scenes of Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows and Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Fra...
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My Name Is Not Ali
Travelling between Germany, France, and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unkn...
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Like a Bird on a Wire
A pseudo variety show about the Aufbau-Era, the time of the German 'economic miracle'. Brigitte Mira...
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Jail Bait
Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Wern...
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