El Hedi ben Salem
personal-info
known-for
Acting
gender
Male
birthday
1936-01-01
place-of-birth
Morocco
also-known-as
Elhedi Ben Salem
El Hedi Ben Salem
Salem El Heïdi
Salem El Hedi
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.