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My Name Is Not Ali( 2011)

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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 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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      El Hedi ben Salem

      Self (archive footage)

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      Rainer Werner Fassbinder

      Self (archive footage)

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      Abd El-Kader Jarrary

      Self (Ben Salem's Son)

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      Hafsia Mellaim

      Self (Ben Salem's former wife)

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      Viola Shafik

      Self (voice)

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      Renate Leiffer

      Self

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      Irm Hermann

      Self

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      Karl Scheydt

      Self

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      Rudolf Waldemar Brem

      Self

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      Hans Hirschmüller

      Self

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      Hamdan Jarrary

      Self (Ben Salem's son)

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      Zeina Jarrary

      Self (Ben Salem's sister)

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      Ahmed Lecomte

      Self (Ben Salem's nephew)

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      Reqaya Zkoura

      Self (Ben Salem's niece)

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      Chadhlia Zkoura

      Self (Ben Salem's niece)

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      Najat Ghribi

      Self (Ben Salem's daughter-in-law)

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      Kurt Raab

      Self (archive footage)

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      Thea Eymèsz

      Self

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      Nikolaus Notter

      Self

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      Marie Notter

      Self

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

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    Keywords

    • woman director