Zoubeir Bornaz

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Zoubeir Bornaz (* unknown; † January 13, 2017 in Tunisia ) was a Tunisian actor , director and writer .

Life

Bornaz attended primary school Sadiki, the Collège Sadiki and the Lycée Technique in Tunis before he graduated in dental prosthetics in Lyon and then completed an internship at the Edouard Herriot Hospital (HEH) in Lyon. He practiced the profession of dental technician for seven years in his own dental laboratory in Le Bardo before giving up and completely reorienting himself. It was in Lyon that he developed his passion for art in general, such as glass blowing - which he first came into contact with in Murano in 1969 - as well as theater, cinema and literary writing in particular. Bornaz was seen in French films in cinemas from the 1970s. Several roles in Tunisian and international films followed. In 1977 he moved to Hammamet and opened a craft boutique. In the off-season he was able to take the time for two glass blowing courses in Egypt and from 1981 onwards he ran the first classic glass blowing in Tunisia in Nabeul . Bornaz traveled and used this to perfect his knowledge of painting, engraving, grinding, metallizing and folding glass. He specialized in blowing glass on the lamp after completing another internship in this technique in Bulgaria. His creations were awarded at the 1986 fair in Nabeul. At the Salon de l'artisanat 1995 in Tunisia, he was able to take second place. In 1998 he took part in the fair in Palermo. He wrote the lyrics, staged and interpreted Farcha , a one-man show with which he appeared at the 1996 Medina Festival in Tunis. During his career Bornaz was part of over 50 productions, commercials and reports before he devoted himself to writing and published books in later years. The artist died in January 2017 after a long illness in his home country Tunisia. When his death became known, Mediapart , in a memory and tribute to Bornaz, published verses - which "show the artist's humor, clarity and talent" - which he wrote on January 4, 2017 and shortly before his final Had to start hospitalization, published on his social media account. In it Bornaz addressed his friends in a lovingly ironic way and wrote in verse about the impending hospitalization.

Career

actor

Bornaz could well have been in front of the camera several times with Coluche in the 70s, his role as a police officer in Ticket ins Chaos from 1983 is definitely documented . In 1984, Bornaz was an assistant at Gene Hackman's side in the film Misunderstood to see. The film is a remake of the 1966 published Der Unverstandene by Luigi Comencini . Bornaz was cast more in the field of comedy and drama in his earlier films, he was able to play in the two-part TV code Caliph by Tony Wharmby based on a novel (Wild Justice 1979 dt .: Delta decision) by Wilbur A. Smith , which the ARD in May 1994 in German first broadcast showed his play in the film genre of the action film in a supporting role. In the high-rated ARD Christmas three-part series Princess Amina - The Secret of a Love by director Enzo G. Castellari , first broadcast in 1997, Bornaz was seen as Yusuf alongside stars like Franco Nero , Anthony Delon and Claudia Cardinale , whose filming was largely in Tunisia took place.

After playing his one-man show and working with glass, Bornaz returned to the role of Taïeb in 2000 for the film Halou u mer by Tunisian director Naceur Ktari, a drama also known as Sweet and Bitter the big screen back. The film was honored with the bronze award - Tanit de Bronze - at the Carthage Film Festival 2000 and tells the story of a theater director, Slah. In the 80 years began Poirot by Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie to film. In the episode Murder in Mesopotamia , by director Tom Clegg from 2001, Bornaz was part of the cast in the role of a police officer, alongside a few other Tunisian actors, such as Hichem Rostom and Bornaz, in supporting roles.

Bornaz played the inspector for the thriller L'île maudite by director Rémy Burkel, produced for M6 (TV station) in 2002. The action takes us to a small Greek island off Athens , where a group of young people who want to open a holiday club have to face a strange curse and a murderer. Bornaz's probably last appearances in front of the camera include the film La Cité by Kim Nguyen - Bornaz in the role of the concierge of a hotel - as well as in Le Dernier Mirage by Nidhal Chatta , as the pilot Adnan, who flies a plane from Iraq to the Tunisian desert controls. Both films have in common that they were partly shot in the south of Tunisia and that they share the leading actor with Jean-Marc Barr .

author

In 2005 Bornaz published the book La Renaissance du verre soufflé en Tunisie . In January 2013 his novel Pikilini was published , which deals with the life of a typical Tunisian teenager in the 60s and 70s. A novel about values, love, family, friendships and taboos in Tunisian society.

Bornaz dedicated Pikilini to the Sidi Mahersi cultural association in Nabeul. The Tunisian newspaper Le Temps wrote on the occasion:

“With a direct style, we quickly recognize that the author is a true architect of the word, he builds, adapts, transforms the pages of his book into a large fresco of the daily life of a Tunisian family, whose exterior has always been protected without thinking, that one day the look of a child: Pikilini would come to lift the veil. "

- Turess / Le Temps

Filmography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Décès de l'acteur Zoubeir Bornaz (fr). - Kapitalis , January 13, 2017, accessed August 26, 2019
  2. ↑ Author: Salah Horchani Ne te marre pas trop, Zoubeir, avec Coluche, là-haut! (fr). - In: Mediapart , January 16, 2017, accessed August 26, 2019
  3. ↑ Biography of Zoubeir Bornaz (fr). - Sefraber , accessed August 26, 2019
  4. ↑ Z. Bornaz - La renaissance du verre soufflé de Tunisie (fr). - Fnac Darty , ISBN 978-9-9736-1119-2 , accessed August 26, 2019
  5. ↑ Author: Manfred Riepe Terror international - The two-parter "Code name Caliph". - In: Taz , May 13, 1994, accessed August 26, 2019
  6. ↑ Princess Amina - The secret of a love. - TV Jewels , accessed August 26, 2019
  7. ^ Sois mon amie de Naceur Ktari (fr). - Africiné , accessed August 26, 2019
  8. ↑ Agatha Christie's Poirot murder in Mesopotamia. - ARD , February 18, 2018, accessed August 26, 2019
  9. ↑ Author: Oliver Armknecht Agatha Christie: Poirot - Collection 1. - In: film-rezensions.de , September 17, 2015, accessed August 27, 2019
  10. ↑ L'île maudite. - Movie releases , accessed August 26, 2019
  11. ^ Author: Manon Dumais La Cité: La peste (fr). - In: Voir , April 8, 2010, accessed August 26, 2019
  12. ↑ Roman: Pikilini - Zoubeir Bornaz (fr). - Catalog: Bibliothèque nationale de France , ISBN 978-2-35453-027-3 , accessed August 26, 2019
  13. ↑ Author: Camel Bouaouina Zoubeir Bornaz dédicace son dernier ouvrage “Pikilini” au club culturel Sidi Mahersi de Nabeul (fr). - In: Turess / Le Temps , February 12, 2013, accessed August 26, 2019
  14. ↑ Official Facebook page of Zoubeir Bornaz. - Facebook , published August 4, 2011, accessed August 28, 2019

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personal data
SURNAME Bornaz, Zoubeir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tunisian actor, director and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2017
Place of death Tunisia