My Name Is Not Ali [142104] Released: 2011-11-07 Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 Profit: $0 Runtime: 98 mins Popularity: 0.2906 Vote Average: 5.8 Vote Count: 5 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. Cast [20] El Hedi ben SalemSelf Rainer Werner FassbinderSelf Abd El-Kader JarrarySelf Hafsia MellaimSelf Viola ShafikSelf Renate LeifferSelf Irm HermannSelf Karl ScheydtSelf Rudolf Waldemar BremSelf Hans HirschmüllerSelf Hamdan JarrarySelf Zeina JarrarySelf Ahmed LecomteSelf Reqaya ZkouraSelf Chadhlia ZkouraSelf Najat GhribiSelf Kurt RaabSelf Thea EymèszSelf Nikolaus NotterSelf Marie NotterSelf Trailers My Name is Not Ali by Viola Shafik (clip)