My Name Is Not Ali
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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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Kurt Raab
Self (archive footage)
El Hedi ben Salem
Self (archive footage)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Self (archive footage)
Irm Hermann
Self
Karl Scheydt
Self
Thea Eymèsz
Self
Najat Ghribi
Self (Ben Salem's daughter-in-law)
Viola Shafik
Self (voice)
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