My Name Is Not AliMovie
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.
About My Name Is Not Ali
My Name Is Not Ali is a 2011 documentary movie directed by Viola Shafik.
The production information lists a runtime of 1h 38m, production credits from Egypt, Germany, an original language code of DE.
The credited cast includes El Hedi ben Salem, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Abd El-Kader Jarrary, Hafsia Mellaim. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
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