TMDb Rating
5.8/10
5 verified votes
My Name Is Not Ali (2011)
Documentary
98 min
Plot 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 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.
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Keywords to include
DocumentaryViola ShafikEl Hedi ben SalemRainer Werner Fassbinder2011
Director
Viola Shafik
Top Cast
El Hedi ben SalemRainer Werner FassbinderAbd El-Kader JarraryHafsia MellaimViola Shafik
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