El Hedi ben Salem

from Morocco

Artwork for Ali: Fear Eats the SoulImage of El Hedi ben Salem

Biography

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.

Timeline

2011Aged 75

  • Poster for My Name Is Not Ali

    Self (archive footage)

2007Aged 71

  • Poster for When Fear Eats the Soul

    Ali (archive footage)

1982Aged 46

  • Poster for Querelle

    Thanks

1975Aged 39

  • Poster for Like a Bird on a Wire

    Bodybuilder

  • Poster for Fox and His Friends

    Salem the Moroccan (uncredited)

1974Aged 38

  • Poster for Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

    Ali

  • Poster for Martha

    Hotel Guest

1973Aged 37

  • Poster for Jail Bait

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Tenderness of the Wolves

    Französischer Soldat

1972Aged 36

  • Poster for The Merchant of Four Seasons

    Araber

  • Poster for The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

    Set Production Assistant

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