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My Name Is Not Ali(2011)
Status: Released
Date: 2011-11-07
58%
5 Votes
Time: 1h 38m
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.
Languages: Arabic, German.
Countries:
Egypt,
Germany
ProductionCompanies:
Mec Film
Movie: My Name Is Not Ali
Top 10 Billed Cast
El Hedi ben Salem
Self (archive footage)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Self (archive footage)
Renate Leiffer
Self
Irm Hermann
Self
Karl Scheydt
Self
Rudolf Waldemar Brem
Self
Hans Hirschmüller
Self
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