My Name Is Not Ali (2011)

Name: My Name Is Not Ali
Genre: Documentary
Released: 07 Nov 2011
Rating: 5.80
Cast: El Hedi ben Salem, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Abd El-Kader Jarrary, Hafsia Mellaim, Viola Shafik

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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 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.

Release: Nov 07, 2011

Runtime: 98 minutes

Language: العربية, Deutsch

Studio: Mec Film

Country: Egypt, Germany

Cast: El Hedi ben Salem, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Abd El-Kader Jarrary, Hafsia Mellaim, Viola Shafik, Renate Leiffer

Crew: Viola Shafik (Director), Viola Shafik (Writer), Viola Shafik (Cinematography), Doreen Ignaszewski (Editor), Onsi Abou Seif (Producer), Viola Shafik (Sound)

Documentary woman director