I was not going to read the story of Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt “Mrs. Ibrahim and the flowers of the Koran”, so when I came across the film by François Dupeyron, I decided to watch it, especially since Omar Sharif starred in one of the main roles there, in the second main role – the boy Moses – the then very young actor Pierre Boulanger
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I was not going to read the story of Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt “Mrs. Ibrahim and the flowers of the Koran”, so when I came across the film by François Dupeyron, I decided to watch it, especially since Omar Sharif starred in one of the main roles there, in the second main role – the boy Moses – the then very young actor Pierre Boulanger starred. Jewish boy Moses Schmidt lives together with a depressed father, his mother has long since left them, the father is not much interested in both life and the upbringing of his son, who arranges himself, as he can, somehow grows up. They live in Paris, but the area leaves much to be desired - prostitutes trade on the street, and purchases are made in the bench "from the Arab" Ibrahim, who is not an Arab, he is a Turk. Seeing how abandoned the boy is, he takes him into his custody, as the father eventually abandons the boy altogether, and then, albeit with great difficulty, after passing a bunch of notaries, adopts him. He also taught him the wisdom of the Quran. It happens somewhere in the 50s - 60s, then, probably, everything was simpler. Then they go on a trip to Turkey, where he takes him through temples of all faiths. The journey ends tragically. As a result, when Moses grew up, he continued the work of Ibrahim - he inherited not only the shop, but also the attitude of Ibrahim to life and people. Whether the Qur’an played a role in this is hard to say. The very fact of writing a kind of tetralogy by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, a philosopher by training, known as the "Cycle of the Invisible", dedicated to different religions, in this case - Sufism and Judaism, is interesting. At first he was considered an agnostic, then turned to Christianity, interested in various religions. And the Lebanese by birth Omar Sharif (Michel Demitri Shalhoub) was originally a Christian, Melkite Greek Catholic, converted to Islam to marry a Muslim woman, with whom, however, later divorced. I can’t say the movie made a big impression on me, but it’s pretty good.
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