My Name Is Not Ali
2011, German. Directed by Viola Shafik.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- German
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Cast & crew
- Viola ShafikDirector
- El Hedi ben SalemSelf (archive footage)
- Rainer Werner FassbinderSelf (archive footage)
- Abd El-Kader JarrarySelf (Ben Salem's Son)
- Hafsia MellaimSelf (Ben Salem's former wife)
- Viola ShafikSelf (voice)
- Renate LeifferSelf
- Irm HermannSelf
- Karl ScheydtSelf
- Rudolf Waldemar BremSelf
- Hans HirschmüllerSelf
- Hamdan JarrarySelf (Ben Salem's son)
- Zeina JarrarySelf (Ben Salem's sister)
Details
- Released
- 7 November 2011
- Original title
- Jannat 'Ali
- Country
- Egypt, Germany
- Written by
- Viola Shafik
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My Name Is Not Ali runs 98 minutes (1h 38m).
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My Name Is Not Ali isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 7 November 2011. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed My Name Is Not Ali?
My Name Is Not Ali (2011) was directed by Viola Shafik and stars El Hedi ben Salem, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Abd El-Kader Jarrary.