![My Name Is Not Ali](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//jG5mgGU5Q7rj973QrAUhG4uZ4SE.jpg)
My Name Is Not Ali
1 hour 38 minutes2011-11-07
5.8
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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 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.
Cast
![El Hedi ben Salem](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//sPMb9tLQ5uPmzZrkbODFUyqtbAM.jpg)
El Hedi ben Salem
Self (archive footage)
![Rainer Werner Fassbinder](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//xll1qAg0TOzcuNlfZWEEKB1JxqR.jpg)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Self (archive footage)
![Abd El-Kader Jarrary](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Abd El-Kader Jarrary
Self (Ben Salem's Son)
![Hafsia Mellaim](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Hafsia Mellaim
Self (Ben Salem's former wife)
![Viola Shafik](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Viola Shafik
Self (voice)
![Renate Leiffer](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//98aqw0VeHx581DIRAkkaFWnJfX6.jpg)
Renate Leiffer
Self
![Irm Hermann](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//4NzeDGGAqq0Aw8QpqTuOAu7DkeN.jpg)
Irm Hermann
Self
![Karl Scheydt](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//nAOPQ4CU7LgLuKnSmKdPlOMmdSj.jpg)
Karl Scheydt
Self
![Rudolf Waldemar Brem](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Rudolf Waldemar Brem
Self
![Hans Hirschmüller](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//3YP2QWcAOlXZhLY8wfkLLFY8Hve.jpg)
Hans Hirschmüller
Self
![Hamdan Jarrary](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Hamdan Jarrary
Self (Ben Salem's son)
![Zeina Jarrary](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Zeina Jarrary
Self (Ben Salem's sister)
![Ahmed Lecomte](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Ahmed Lecomte
Self (Ben Salem's nephew)
![Reqaya Zkoura](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Reqaya Zkoura
Self (Ben Salem's niece)
![Chadhlia Zkoura](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Chadhlia Zkoura
Self (Ben Salem's niece)
![Najat Ghribi](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Najat Ghribi
Self (Ben Salem's daughter-in-law)
![Kurt Raab](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//wVtzUW8bi4Xmupsjoms369qjIKG.jpg)
Kurt Raab
Self (archive footage)
![Thea Eymèsz](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Thea Eymèsz
Self
![Nikolaus Notter](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Nikolaus Notter
Self
![Marie Notter](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)