Omar Sharif: the world culture pays tribute – Le Point

The tributes showered after the announcement of the disappearance of Omar Sharif, at the age of 83. Italian actress Claudia Cardinale expressed Friday his “great sadness” thinking “greatly affected” by the death of the actor with whom she had shared the screen. “It is with great sadness that I learned the death of Omar Sharif. We started our careers together in ‘Goha’ of Jacques Baratier” in 1958, said the actress of 77 years in a text sent to the AFP.

“The loss of my first companion work touches me enormously and revives the emotions experienced in our meeting,” said the woman who had also toured with Egyptian actor in “Mayrig” of Henri Verneuil in 1991. “He was not only a great actor but also a legendary figure,” said for his part told AFP the French artist Arielle Dombasle, who plays Omar Sharif in his film “Blue Pyramids “in 1988.” He was very playful. He loved women of course, gambling, horses, great adventures, epics, “she continued. “And that was a very troubled, very excessive and that’s what I liked in him, it is this kind of huge vulnerability.”

“It was a great storyteller, a loyal friend and a wise mind, “responded on Twitter Spanish actor Antonio Banderas. “It was one of the best.” “The boy dreams, creator of dreams … the Arab artistic personality most famous in the world”, wrote on Twitter Tunisian actress Hend Sabry installed in Egypt. “I’m in a terrible state, I feel lost and helpless, I lost one of the best people in my life,” he told AFP the famous Egyptian actress Youssra.

” He was a charmer, a beautiful man “

The Minister of Culture Fleur Pellerin hailed” an actor seductive power hitting, “which was” moving, charming and romantic, as in life on the sets. ” “This love of France, who was at home throughout the world, in our country was the symbol of a generation of legendary actors, loved by all,” she added in a statement.

The president of the National Film Centre (CNC) Frédérique Bredin has expressed his “great sadness”, saying that “French cinema lost a dear friend.” “He was an example and a star. For the Mediterraneans young, have an Egyptian in Hollywood with two equally spectacular, and especially talented film success ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ and ‘Doctor Zhivago’, it means a lot,” he for his part commented the former president of the Cannes Film Festival Gilles Jacob, who was part of the jury of the Venice Film Festival Omar Sharif in 1990. “It was a charmer, a beautiful man, a playboy and simultaneously a man with an extremely quick mind, “said he told AFP, recounting that” the jury in Venice, he had joined the women’s opinion because he said they knew better than us. “