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.
Genre: Documentary
Stars: El Hedi ben Salem, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Abd El-Kader Jarrary, Hafsia Mellaim, Viola Shafik, Renate Leiffer
Crew: Viola Shafik (Director), Viola Shafik (Writer), Viola Shafik (Cinematography), Doreen Ignaszewski (Editor), Onsi Abou Seif (Producer), Viola Shafik (Sound)
Country: Egypt, Germany
Language: العربية, Deutsch
Studio: Mec Film
Runtime: 98 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Nov 07, 2011
IMDb: 5.2
Keywords:woman director
