My Name Is Not Ali
Release Date: 2011-11-07
Overview: 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.
Rating: 5.8 / 10
Cast
El Hedi ben Salem
as Self (archive footage)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
as Self (archive footage)
Abd El-Kader Jarrary
as Self (Ben Salem's Son)
Hafsia Mellaim
as Self (Ben Salem's former wife)
Viola Shafik
as Self (voice)
Crew
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Viola Shafik - Director
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Viola Shafik - Writer
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Doreen Ignaszewski - Editor
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Onsi Abou Seif - Producer
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Viola Shafik - Sound
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