El Hedi ben Salem

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.

  • Title: El Hedi ben Salem
  • Popularity: 12.59
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1936-01-01
  • Place of Birth: Morocco
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  • Also Known As: Elhedi Ben Salem, El Hedi Ben Salem, Salem El Heïdi, Salem El Hedi
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El Hedi ben Salem Movies

  • 1974
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    Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
    Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

    7.719 1974 HD

    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...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Brigitte Mira

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  • 1973
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    Tenderness of the Wolves
    Tenderness of the Wolves

    5.6 1973 HD

    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,...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Kurt Raab

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  • 1972
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    The Merchant of Four Seasons
    The Merchant of Four Seasons

    6.732 1972 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Hans Hirschmüller

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  • 2007
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    When Fear Eats the Soul
    When Fear Eats the Soul

    10 2007 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Brigitte Mira

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  • 2011
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    My Name Is Not Ali
    My Name Is Not Ali

    5.8 2011 HD

    Travelling between Germany, France and Tunisia, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unknown life story of El Hedi Ben Salem through...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: El Hedi ben Salem

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  • 1975
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    Like a Bird on a Wire
    Like a Bird on a Wire

    5.8 1975 HD

    A pseudo variety show about the Aufbau-Era, the time of the German 'economic miracle'. Brigitte Mira recounts her four husbands through song and...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Brigitte Mira

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  • 1973
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    Jail Bait
    Jail Bait

    6 1973 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Harry Baer

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  • 1975
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    Fox and His Friends
    Fox and His Friends

    7.323 1975 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Peter Chatel

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  • 1974
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    Martha
    Martha

    7.1 1974 HD

    After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha is caught in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband whom she...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Margit Carstensen

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  • 1972
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    The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
    The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

    7.32 1972 HD

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Margit Carstensen

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  • 1982
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    Querelle
    Querelle

    6.5 1982 HD

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Brad Davis

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  • 1973
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    World on a Wire
    World on a Wire

    7.2 1973 HD

    Cybernetics engineer Fred Stiller uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy involving a virtual reality computer project.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Klaus Löwitsch

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