Where to watch · United States
Not on any service here yet.
My Name Is Not Ali (2011)
Directed by Viola Shafik
Documentary · 1h 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.
Cast
El Hedi ben Salem
Self (archive footage)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Self (archive footage)
A
Abd El-Kader Jarrary
Self (Ben Salem's Son)
H
Hafsia Mellaim
Self (Ben Salem's former wife)
V
Viola Shafik
Self (voice)
Renate Leiffer
Self
Irm Hermann
Self
Karl Scheydt
Self
Rudolf Waldemar Brem
Self
Hans Hirschmüller
Self
H
Hamdan Jarrary
Self (Ben Salem's son)
Z
Zeina Jarrary
Self (Ben Salem's sister)
Crew
- Director
- Viola Shafik
- Writer
- Viola Shafik
- Editor
- Doreen Ignaszewski
- Producer
- Onsi Abou Seif
Details
- Original title
- Jannat 'Ali
- Release date
- 2011-11-07
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, German
- Countries
- Egypt, Germany
- Production
- Diogenes Film, Bärbel Mauch Film