My Name Is Not Ali
My Name Is Not Ali2011
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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.
DirectorViola ShafikStudioDiogenes Film
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 El Hedi ben SalemSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
 Rainer Werner FassbinderSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
| AAbd El-Kader JarrarySelf (Ben Salem's Son) | Self (Ben Salem's Son) |
| HHafsia MellaimSelf (Ben Salem's former wife) | Self (Ben Salem's former wife) |
| VViola ShafikSelf (voice) | Self (voice) |
 Renate LeifferSelf | Self |
 Irm HermannSelf | Self |
 Karl ScheydtSelf | Self |
 Rudolf Waldemar BremSelf | Self |
 Hans HirschmüllerSelf | Self |
| HHamdan JarrarySelf (Ben Salem's son) | Self (Ben Salem's son) |
| ZZeina JarrarySelf (Ben Salem's sister) | Self (Ben Salem's sister) |
| AAhmed LecomteSelf (Ben Salem's nephew) | Self (Ben Salem's nephew) |
| RReqaya ZkouraSelf (Ben Salem's niece) | Self (Ben Salem's niece) |
| CChadhlia ZkouraSelf (Ben Salem's niece) | Self (Ben Salem's niece) |
| NNajat GhribiSelf (Ben Salem's daughter-in-law) | Self (Ben Salem's daughter-in-law) |
 Kurt RaabSelf (archive footage) | Self (archive footage) |
| TThea EymèszSelf | Self |
| NNikolaus NotterSelf | Self |
| MMarie NotterSelf | Self |