El Hedi ben Salem
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as Ali Ali: Fear Eats the Soul El Hedi ben Salem was a Moroccan actor. He is best known as the lover and collaborator of provocative German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He died 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.
Filmography
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
as Ali
Fox and His Friends
as Salem the Moroccan (uncredited)
The Merchant of Four Seasons
as Araber
Martha
as Hotel Guest
Tenderness of the Wolves
as Französischer Soldat
Like a Bird on a Wire
as Bodybuilder
My Name Is Not Ali
as Self (archive footage)
When Fear Eats the Soul
as Ali (archive footage)