El Hedi ben Salem
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Emerging from a modest village in Morocco and raised in a Hartani family, he left his early domestic life in the early 1970s to seek opportunities in Europe. A chance encounter with German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder in a Parisian bathhouse led to a personal and professional partnership; after relocating to West Germany, he appeared in several of Fassbinder's supporting roles before being ca…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
