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El Hedi ben Salem is a Actor and Set Production Assistant born on 1 january 1936
El Hedi ben Salem (c. 1935 – 1977) was a Moroccan actor best known for his work with German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Fassbinder dedicated his last film Querelle (1982) to him. Some publications erroneously report 1982 as the year of El Hedi ben Salem's death.
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El Hedi ben Salem
Birth name El Hedi ben Salem m'Barek Mohammed Mustafa
Birth 1 january 1936
Death 1 january 1976 (at 40 years) at Nîmes (France)
Birth 1 january 1936
Death 1 january 1976 (at 40 years) at Nîmes (France)
El Hedi ben Salem (c. 1935 – 1977) was a Moroccan actor best known for his work with German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Biography
El Hedi ben Salem was Rainer Werner Fassbinder's boyfriend from 1971 to 1974, though he also had a wife and five children in Morocco. During this period, he played several roles in Fassbinder's films. He is best known for his role of Ali in Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. While intoxicated, Salem seriously injured three people by stabbing. He flew to France, where he robbed a jewelry store. He was arrested and convicted. In 1976 he died in prison after a soccer game from cardiac arrest.Fassbinder dedicated his last film Querelle (1982) to him. Some publications erroneously report 1982 as the year of El Hedi ben Salem's death.
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Fox and His Friends (1975)
, 2h3Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karlheinz Böhm, Peter Chatel, Kurt Raab, El Hedi ben Salem, Adrian Hoven
Roles Salem the Moroccan (uncredited)
Rating75%
Franz Bieberkopf is a sweet and unsophisticated working-class homosexual who works in a carnival as "Fox, the Talking Head". He finds himself without a job when his
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
, 1h33Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Origin German
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about immigration, Films about racism, Films about sexuality
Actors Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Walter Sedlmayr
Roles Ali
Rating79%
Ali (Salem), is a Moroccan Gastarbeiter (guest worker) in his late thirties, and Emmi (Mira), is a 60-year-old widowed cleaning woman. They meet when Emmi ducks inside a bar, driven by the rain and drawn by the exotic Arabic music (Al Asfouryeh by Sabah) she says she has heard so often on her walk home from work. A woman in the bar (Katharina Herberg) who is part of Ali's Arabic-speaking cohort tauntingly suggests Ali ask Emmi ("the old woman") to dance, and Emmi accepts. A strange and unlikely friendship develops, then a romance and soon they are living together in Emmi's flat. Out of a professed sense of responsibility but also hopefulness, Emmi first confides in her newfound love when she goes to visit her daughter Krista (Irm Hermann) and her tyrannical son-in-law Eugen (Fassbinder himself) and announces that she is in love with Ali; Eugen thinks she is screwy and Krista as well can only think that her mother - who has been a widow for years - is fantasizing.
Martha (1974)
, 1h56Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Origin German
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm, Barbara Valentin, Ingrid Caven, Peter Chatel, Kurt Raab
Roles Hotel Guest
Rating74%
Martha Heyer, a virginal 31 years old librarian, is on vacation in Rome with her domineering unloving father. He is a fastidious man who refuses to be touched. At their first stop while touring the city, the Spanish Steps, the father suffers a heart attack dying in Martha’s arms. Martha soon discovers that her purse, containing all of her money, has been stolen in the confusion. She reaches for help at the German embassy and phones her mother giving her the bad news. Leaving the embassy, Martha crosses the path of a gentleman, who catches her eye – and she his. They are mutually mesmerized but keep going their own ways.
Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)
, 1h22Directed by Ulli Lommel
Origin German
Genres Drama, Biography, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Serial killer films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven, Brigitte Mira, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wolfgang Schenck
Roles Französischer Soldat
Rating62%
Fritz Haarmann (Kurt Raab, who also wrote the film) uses his position as a government inspector to rape and murder young boys in war-torn Germany. After killing his victims, he shares the meat with his circle of cannibal friends.
World on a Wire (1973)
, 3h25Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Origin German
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films based on science fiction novels
Actors Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau, Ulli Lommel, Wolfgang Schenck, Ivan Desny
Roles Bodyguard
Rating76%
At the Institute for Cybernetics and Future Science ("Institut für Kybernetik und Zukunftsforschung, IKZ"), a new supercomputer hosts a simulation program that includes an artificial world with over 9,000 "identity units" who live as human beings, unaware that their world is just a simulacron. Professor Vollmer (Adrian Hoven), who is technical director of the program, is apparently on the verge of an incredible secret discovery. He becomes increasingly agitated and anti-social before dying in a mysterious accident. His successor, Dr. Fred Stiller, has a discussion with Günther Lause, the security adviser of the institute, when the latter suddenly disappears without trace, before passing on Vollmer's secret to Stiller. More mysterious still is the fact that none of the other IKZ employees seem to have any memory of Lause.
Jail Bait (1973)
, 1h42Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Origin German
Genres Drama
Actors Harry Baer, Eva Mattes, El Hedi ben Salem, Hanna Schygulla, Kurt Raab, Karl Scheydt
Rating71%
Hanni, fille mineure d'un couple bourgeois fait la connaissance de Franz, un ouvrier de 19 ans et couche avec lui. Franz est dénoncé aux autorités par un camarade et condamné pour détournement de mineure.
The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972)
, 1h28Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Origin German
Genres Drama
Actors Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Kurt Raab, Ingrid Caven, Hark Bohm
Roles Araber
Rating72%
Hans, an ordinary but likable man, returns home after spending several years in the French Foreign Legion. He is berated by his mother ("The good die young, and people like you come back," she says after hearing about the death of the young friend Hans had taken to the army with him).
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Querelle (1982)
, 1h47Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Origin German
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Serial killer films, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau, Laurent Malet, Günther Kaufmann, Hanno Pöschl
Roles Thanks
Rating66%
The plot centers on the handsome Belgian sailor Georges Querelle, who is also a thief and murderer. When his ship, the Vengeur, arrives in Brest, he visits the Feria, a bar and brothel for sailors run by the madame Lysiane, whose lover Robert is Querelle's brother. Querelle has a love/hate relationship with his brother; when they meet at La Feria, they embrace, but also punch one another slowly and repeatedly in the belly. Lysiane's husband Nono tends bar and manages La Feria's underhanded affairs with the assistance of his friend, the corrupt police captain Mario.
, 2h4Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Origin German
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, BDSM in films, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Eva Mattes, Lída Baarová, Katrin Schaake
Roles Set Production Assistant
Rating74%
Petra von Kant (Carstersen) is a prominent fashion designer based in Bremen. The film is almost totally restricted to her apartment's bedroom, decorated by a huge reproduction of Poussin's Midas and Bacchus (c.1630), which depicts naked and partially clothed men. The room also contains numerous life-size mannequins for her work, though only her assistant Marlene (Hermann) is shown using them.