I'm sorry but I just couldn't believe him as a German...esp. a Nazi.
Did anybody else have a problem with it?
I had a problem with English accents on Germans.Threw me off and made it unbelievable.
"I don’t mind being in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it"~Marilyn Monroe
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So it's more believable when German characters talk to each other in English with German accents but not German?
There was one scene showing a German radio broadcaster with a very strong American accent - that threw me.
shareYes, I had a problem. But how many of our actors have played Arabs and other non Western foreigners in our films for years? Remember Robert Armstrong playing a Japanese in "The Blood of the Sun" with James Cagney back in 1945? So let us give an Arab, or any nonwestern actor,the opportunity to play an European if he/she can do it.
shareI will admit that this was a slightly odd piece of casting but I had no problem with Sharif in this film. He wasn't SS he was just an officer in the Wehrmacht so he wouldn't necessarily have had to be totally racially pure. For instance his mother could have come from somewhere like Romania who were allied with Germany that could explain his darker skin and features.
No, because he was so damn good.
waste of good scotch
Only white actors can play white parts?
shareActually, I thought he gave a fine performance in a tricky role. The movie had many such performances. Pleasence and O'Toole were wonderful.
The movie as a whole unfortunately was less than the sum of its parts.
Eh, I accepted him as a Russian.
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