My Name Is Not Ali
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.
About My Name Is Not Ali (2011)
My Name Is Not Ali (2011) is a documentary movie produced by Diogenes Film in Egypt. It was directed by Viola Shafik and written by Viola Shafik. On screen you will see El Hedi ben Salem, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Abd El-Kader Jarrary, Hafsia Mellaim and Viola Shafik. With a runtime of 1h 38m, the film averages 6.3/10 across 6 TMDB ratings.
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