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My Name Is Not Ali (2011)

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2011 · 98 min · Documentary

My Name Is Not Ali (2011) is a documentary film with a runtime of 98 minutes. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.6 from 37 votes, alongside a TMDB score of 6.3. Compare its IMDb, TMDB and community ratings below to see how My Name Is Not Ali scores across every source.

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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 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.