El Hedi ben Salem
El Hedi ben Salem is a Moroccan actor. He is best known as the lover and collaborator of provocative German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He died of a heart attack while in prison. Fassbinder dedicated his last film, Querelle (1982), to Salem. In 2012, a documentary on Salem's life entitled My Name Is Not Ali, premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival.
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
as AliEmmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her...
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
as AraberHans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family,...
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Fox and His Friends
as Salem the Moroccan (uncredited)Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and...
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Martha
as Hotel GuestAfter the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha is caught in a strange,...
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Tenderness of the Wolves
as Französischer SoldatA German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between...
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Jail Bait
as uncreditedBased on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer...
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My Name Is Not Ali
as Self (archive footage)Travelling between Germany, France and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the...
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When Fear Eats the Soul
as Ali (archive footage)Mixing scenes of Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows and Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul,...
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Like a Bird on a Wire
as BodybuilderA pseudo variety show about the Aufbau-Era, the time of the German 'economic miracle'. Brigitte...
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World on a Wire
as BodyguardCybernetics engineer Fred Stiller uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy involving a virtual...
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