My Name Is Not Ali

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.

Country:

Egypt,

Germany

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

98 minutes

Year:

2011

Director:

Viola Shafik

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Company:

Mec Film

Cast:

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self (Ben Salem's Son)

Self (Ben Salem's former wife)

Self (voice)

Crew:

Director

Writer

Cinematography

Editor

Producer