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El Hedi Ben Salem M’barek Mohammed Mustafa, star of “Fear Eats the Soul: Ali,” and among the more tragic figures swept up in and discarded by Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s creative clique, is...
My Name Is Not Ali: Directed by Viola Shafik. With El Hedi ben Salem, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Thea Eymèsz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Viola Shafik's documentary explores the story of El Hedi ben Salem, a lover and collaborator of provocative German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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- 2011-11-07
El Hedi ben Salem was a Moroccan actor and lover of German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He appeared in several of Fassbinder's films, such as Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and Fox and His Friends, and died in prison in 1982.
Aug 29, 2012 · Best known for playing Ali, the young Berber laborer whose relationship with an older German woman is recounted in Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, El Hedi ben Salem was credited on close to a dozen...
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May 10, 2021 · Fassbinder comes on strong with Morrocan El Hedi ben Salem (Erdal Yildiz) in a club, beginning a sexual relationship with immediately even though he has a wife and two teenaged boys back home, casting him in his future classic “Ali: Fear Eats the Soul,” and treating him so abominably throughout the process that it reduced the performer to a ...
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul: Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Irm Hermann, Elma Karlowa. A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm.
Mar 30, 2017 · (El Hedi ben Salem, star of Fear Eats the Soul, was Fassbinder's lover for three years. The actor would later hang himself in a Parisian jail – the second of Fassbinder's...
