FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE David Lean - Lawrence Of Arabia 

What kind of daring genius did it take to produce this film? An epic four hours long without stars, without a love story and without much action. The hero is the eccentric, even suicidal T.E. Lawrence, who survives an almost impossible journey through the desert. Already safe, he returns to find his friend, who stayed behind. We know the scene. A spot appears far back on the horizon. A spot that becomes a man. Or don't we know this moment at all? If you rent the DVD from us or stream the film you will hardly identify the spot on the TV monitor. I'm sorry, but this is a movie! A 70mm movie! Only in the 70mm format we can get an impression of the vastness of the desert. Lawrence Of Arabia is not a simple historical film. It is a work about the extravagance of the desert. It is proven: Lawrence won the Arabs to fight for the British and against the Turks. Did he do it out of patriotism? The film corrects that. No, rather out of pragmatism. Basically, he rejected the British side and identified with the Arabs. Or is it true that Lawrence was homosexual? Of course, this aspect had to be treated carefully in such an expensive epic in 1962. Peter O'Toole plays Lawrence. A frail beautiful actor. Not an ordinary action hero, but one who still wanted to be recognized. What secret did this Lawrence hide? He speaks in a strange manner, seems as charismatic as he is crazy. How could he get the Arabs to follow him through the desert? O'Toole plays at least one socially and sexually unconventional man. Could such a man win the war against the Turks? He could. Without realizing their rivalries, he allied himself with the desert lords Sherif Ali (Omar Sharif), Prince Faisal (Alec Guinness) and Auda Abu Tayi (Anthony Quinn). Strangely enough, the following epic is based less on "plot" than on "feeling". The story is not told in dialogues, but in the recordings of the desert. Epos refers not so much to the elaborate production, but to the unique artistic vision! Unfortunately, we can't offer this vision in our video store. You must try to see it somewhere on 70mm. A task almost as difficult as the production of Lawrence Of Arabia!