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Omar Sharif played the unsung heroes in monumental Hollywood films such as “Doctor Zhivago” and “Lawrence of Arabia”. A tribute to a great actor.
He really Format, historical format, in the sixties, when the cinema with monumental films tried on monumental figures, zurückzulocken the audience from the TV in front of the big screens. 1969 Omar Sharif was seen as Che Guevara, in the Hollywood Biography of Richard Fleischer, beside him Jack Palance as Fidel Castro. This is certainly not the film, which is why you will remember Sharif. Also “Mayerling” does not necessarily mean he had turned recently and where he was the Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf, who committed suicide with his beloved Mary Vetsera -. Which was played by Catherine Deneuve
Remember you will course of Sherif Ali in his black robe, “Lawrence of Arabia”, which went down a mysterious, sensual and chaste relationship with blonde British Lawrence of Peter O’Toole, and Doctor Zhivago, in the eponymous film adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s Nobel Prize-Roman , Zhivago, the friendly doctor who went calmly through the horror and chaos of the Russian Revolution and with the help of two women found to be, Julie Christie and Geraldine Chaplin.
His relationship with Egypt was passionate, but not without problems
Lawrence and Zhivago, two films by David Lean, the minimalists of the big screen – be quiet directing style corresponded quite the temperament of Omar Sharif – and also that he demanded his players no excessive play. This is not art, then blasphemed the toxic New Yorker critic Pauline Kael: “It’s hard work – which, of course, many more people respect as an art.”
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Before “Lawrence” was Sharif a star in Egyptian cinema been. His relationship with Egypt was passionate, but not without problems. Back then, at the beginning of his career, saw the entire Middle East films from Egypt, it was the golden age, and it had a royal couple: Omar Sharif and Faten Hamama, the wonderful Queen of Egyptian cinema. The two played in many films together, for example, in “Anna Karenina” film version “River of Love” from 1961. Hamama was his great love, for she joined the Christian Sharif in 1955 converted to Islam. It was a marriage that only Hollywood difference: 1974 Sharif left Egypt, but Hamama he never forgot: “Your love was all consuming,” he said not long ago in Cairo. “To say it in all frankness: According to her, I closed my heart.” Hamama died in January.
” Doctor Zhivago “actor actor Omar Sharif is dead
The Egyptian movie star Omar Sharif died. He died in Cairo of a heart attack.
career with nemesis America
Many Egyptians forgiven him rather know that he had just made his fortune when nemesis America, but not that he’s had given up faith. Every now and then he turned back to the canvas but on the Nile. He had one of the best performances in Ramy Imam film “Hassan and Marcus”, a delightfully wicked comedy of errors about religious fanatics with cross or crescent from 2008, a wonderful fun because he just a bead took the hypocrisy of Christian clerics as those of the Super-Muslims: for sale, the dishonest one. Commercially, mendacious the other
Even in America and Europe is spanned it with the greatest actresses together: with Deneuve and Christie, with Barbra Streisand – in “Funny Girl” – with Sophia Loren, Julie Andrews and Anouk. Aimée. Omar Sharif remained Gentleman these women face, unfathomable and discreet. He was not a passionate action hero, certainly not really at home in such films as “Che” or “Genghis Khan”, but not a big passionate lover. His passion was at best camouflage. He gradually became also a specialist for Eastern wisdom, the Far as the Middle East – most recently in “Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran”, the novel by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. And also to Russia, he
real passion was borrowed again and again, for example for the “demons” film version, directed by Andrzej Wajda. He developed beyond the canvas, to the bridge tables all over the world, very professional , Or at equestrian sports. Earlier this year, reported Arab media touched that Sharif had returned to the Nile. “I came back, so that the people I love and who never forget me, can follow my funeral,” he said in Cairo. How could he remain in a foreign country, “where only strangers come to my funeral?” At the age of 83 years Omar Sharif is now died in Cairo.
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