The noble savage: the death of the actor Omar Sharif – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

      

 
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         

 
 
 
 
 
          The eternal signature role: Scene from “Doctor Zhivago”, 1965.
     

 
                                              

 
 
     
     
     
         
         
                                                             

So a ride in film history: slowly, infinitely slowly from the depths of the desert towards the camera and thus to the audience in the hall. When “Lawrence of Arabia” in 1962 turned in a monumental 70-mm format, has a few years later than ten or eleven years old seen for the first time, full of excitement, with glowing cheeks and little understanding, then it was blown away , The screens appear one larger in memory than they were, such an occurrence, the streets of Youth wider when she perceives today. And Omar Sharif, who this man who came from the desert played, was a sympathetic than Peter O’Toole as a time just also Indians were closer closer than cowboys and the Bedouins as a Briton, who teamed up with them. Sharif was Hollywood’s dream of the noble savage and warriors with irresistible look and dazzling appearance, how to read later when David Thomson, “playfully modern Valentino conjured”.

                         
         
         
                                                             
                             

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For a boy in 1970 that was the epitome of space and adventure. In “Doctor Zhivago” (1965), the one possibly caught on even less, then they learned what love, frustration and pain, one was convinced, the first girlfriend that you would have, just like Julie Christie should look, and a song like “Lara’s Theme” will be heard – and probably even if it was going to end with a, what was more remote time. But this scene, in which the gray-haired Jurij seen melancholy by the tram wheel his great love feels painfully hinausbahnt the way to then break down on a Moscow street that made a painful sense what life an all would be able to do. ‘ / p>
                         
         
         
                                 
 
 
 
 
 
             

             
         
                     
                 
                                                                                                                         
 
                 
                                                                                                          With Barbra Streisand in “Funny Girl” (1968).
                                         
 
                     
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Of course, I had no idea that Omar Sharif was an Egyptian of Syrian-Lebanese family and that only Hollywood special ethnography him of the Roman Empire in a Bedouin leader, then in a Russian, but also in Genghis Khan, or, in the “downfall “could turn into an Armenian king; also a German Wehrmacht General put in him than fame and appeal were large enough in Anatole Litvak’s “The Night of the Generals” (1966), and even a revolutionary in “Che!” (1969).

                         
         
         
                                                                                                                                                                                                  

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It was not until later, then took note that in 1932 studied in Alexandria babies sometimes mathematics and physics had he Bridge World Champion in 1973 and gambled away a fortune that he, just after the Six Day War, in “Funny Girl” (1968) had a romance with the Jewish Barbra Streisand. And while you grew older, even the pompous simplicity and simple ideology of his great films were always visible. Sharif was just a lot of fairly uninteresting roles offered until it had a worthy age appearance even in “Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran” in 2003. Now Omar Sharif, died at the age of 83 years, in Cairo. The proud Sherif Ali and the sad Yuri Zhivago but will survive him, as long as there is the cinema.

                                 

 
  

 
 
 
                       

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On the death of Omar Sharif

The noble savage

Peter Körte

Rebell, Mongol, Bedouin – Omar Sharif ruled not only on the screen a wide repertoire of roles , His big Orient-romances make it memorable.

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