My Name Is Not Ali

My Name Is Not Ali

2011
1h 38m
5.8

5.8/10

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Documentary
Overview

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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Status: Released

Language: DE

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Production Information

Production Companies
Mec Film
Production Countries
Egypt Germany
Spoken Languages
Arabic German

Keywords

woman director

Quick Facts

Original Title Jannat 'Ali
Release Date November 7, 2011
Status Released
Language DE
IMDb ID tt2123212

Cast

El Hedi ben Salem
El Hedi ben Salem

Self (archive footage)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Self (archive footage)

Abd El-Kader Jarrary
Abd El-Kader Jarrary

Self (Ben Salem's Son)

Hafsia Mellaim
Hafsia Mellaim

Self (Ben Salem's former wife)

Viola Shafik
Viola Shafik

Self (voice)

Renate Leiffer
Renate Leiffer

Self

Irm Hermann
Irm Hermann

Self

Karl Scheydt
Karl Scheydt

Self

Rudolf Waldemar Brem
Rudolf Waldemar Brem

Self

Hans Hirschmüller
Hans Hirschmüller

Self

Hamdan Jarrary
Hamdan Jarrary

Self (Ben Salem's son)

Zeina Jarrary
Zeina Jarrary

Self (Ben Salem's sister)

Key Crew

Viola Shafik
Director
Viola Shafik
Writer
Onsi Abou Seif
Producer