My Name Is Not Ali (movie)

Name: My Name Is Not Ali
Director: Viola Shafik
Released: 2011-10-7
Rating: 5.8
Cast: El Hedi ben Salem, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Abd El-Kader Jarrary, Hafsia Mellaim, Viola Shafik

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User score: 5.8
Production country: Egypt, Germany
Producer: Viola Shafik
Production companies: Mec Film
Genre: Documentary
Release date: 11/7/2011
Run time: 98 min.

Movie description

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.