Release Date

07 Nov, 2011

Runtime

01:38: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Jannat 'Ali

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Actors

El Hedi ben Salem

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Abd El-Kader Jarrary

Hafsia Mellaim

Viola Shafik

Renate Leiffer

Irm Hermann

Karl Scheydt

Rudolf Waldemar Brem

Hans Hirschmüller

Hamdan Jarrary

Zeina Jarrary

Ahmed Lecomte

Reqaya Zkoura

Chadhlia Zkoura

Najat Ghribi

Kurt Raab

Thea Eymèsz

Nikolaus Notter

Marie Notter

Crew

Viola Shafik

Viola Shafik

Viola Shafik

Doreen Ignaszewski

Onsi Abou Seif

Viola Shafik