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My Name Is Not Ali (2011)

My Name Is Not Ali (2011)

Documentary
Release Date: 2011, November 7
Directors: Viola Shafik
Countries: Germany, Egypt
Production: Mec Film
Cast: Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Irm Hermann, Karl Scheydt, Kurt Raab, El Hedi ben Salem, Abd El-Kader Jarrary, Hafsia Mellaim, Hans Hirschmüller, Hamdan Jarrary, Zeina Jarrary, Ahmed Lecomte, Reqaya Zkoura

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.

Keywords:

woman director