(Jannat 'Ali)

Content: 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.

Countries:

Egypt,

Germany

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

98 minutes

Year:

2011

Directors:

Viola Shafik

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Production companies:

Mec Film

Actors:

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self (Ben Salem's Son)

Self (Ben Salem's former wife)

Self (voice)

Crews:

Director

Writer

Editor

Producer

Sound