My Name Is Not Ali

My Name Is Not Ali (2011)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2011-11-07
  • User Rating: 5.8/10 from 5 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 38min
  • Language: العربية
  • Production Company: Mec Film
  • Production Country: Egypt, Germany
  • Director: Viola Shafik
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Summary

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.

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  • 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)

  • Renate Leiffer

    as Self

  • Irm Hermann

    as Self

  • Karl Scheydt

    as Self

  • Rudolf Waldemar Brem

    as Self

  • Hans Hirschmüller

    as Self

  • Hamdan Jarrary

    as Self (Ben Salem's son)

  • Zeina Jarrary

    as Self (Ben Salem's sister)

  • Ahmed Lecomte

    as Self (Ben Salem's nephew)

  • Reqaya Zkoura

    as Self (Ben Salem's niece)

  • Chadhlia Zkoura

    as Self (Ben Salem's niece)

  • Najat Ghribi

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

  • Kurt Raab

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Thea Eymèsz

    as Self

  • Nikolaus Notter

    as Self

  • Marie Notter

    as Self
Directing Viola Shafik Director
Writing Viola Shafik Writer
Crew Viola Shafik Cinematography
Editing Doreen Ignaszewski Editor
Production Onsi Abou Seif Producer
Sound Viola Shafik Sound

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