El Hedi ben Salem
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 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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.358 |
| Birthday | 1936-01-01 |
| Place of Birth | Morocco |
| Also Known As | Elhedi Ben Salem, El Hedi Ben Salem, Salem El Heïdi, Salem El Hedi, |
1974
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
7.7/382
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she...
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1973
Tenderness of the Wolves
5.6/40
A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann, a...
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Tenderness of the Wolves
1972
The Merchant of Four Seasons
6.736/70
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After r...
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
2007
When Fear Eats the Soul
10/1
Mixing scenes of Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows and Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, François Ozon creates a new film about cinephilic con...
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When Fear Eats the Soul
2011
My Name Is Not Ali
5.8/5
Travelling between Germany, France and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unknown life story of El Hedi Ben Salem through intervi...
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My Name Is Not Ali
1975
Like a Bird on a Wire
5.8/6
A pseudo variety show about the Aufbau-Era, the time of the German 'economic miracle'. Brigitte Mira recounts her four husbands through song and joke,...
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Like a Bird on a Wire
1973
Jail Bait
6/11
Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story of a very young girl...
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Jail Bait
1975
Fox and His Friends
7.315/119
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb...
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Fox and His Friends
1974
Martha
7.1/57
After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous hus...
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