My Name Is Not Ali

5.8
20111h 38m

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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Photo of El Hedi ben Salem

El Hedi ben Salem

Self (archive footage)

Photo of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Self (archive footage)

Photo of Kurt Raab

Kurt Raab

Self (archive footage)

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