El Hedi ben Salem
Born in Morocco — Jan 01 1936• Died Jan 01 1976
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Biography
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.
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World on a Wire
Bodyguard
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
Dunkelhäutiger Arbeiter
Querelle
Crew
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Ali
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Crew
Fox and His Friends
Salem the Moroccan (uncredited)
Jail Bait
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Araber
Martha
Hotel Guest
My Name Is Not Ali
Self (archive footage)
Tenderness of the Wolves
Französischer Soldat
Like a Bird on a Wire
Bodybuilder
When Fear Eats the Soul
Ali (archive footage)