Good evening, :) What date for this picture ? What old has he ? Hir hair is longer on the front but more black, I thought it was had been touch, but there are also shadows on the front. Maybe the light effect. Friendly, Marie-Jeanne

This photo was from either '82 or 83. He was not well as you can see. He was suffering from severe depression; had lost his faith in the power of love and felt that all he had done for Austrian theater was forgotten and useless. His hair is still lighter on top, sweat, as in your avatar, has dampened it so the black and white film makes it look dark. The photo appears in a book written about him called "Ein Nacklang". The author, Robert Dachs, was a friend. His aim was to show how the effects of alcoholism and the treatment of Oskar by a lot of very stupid critics in '83 had hurt him at this point. I have a dvd that shows him 2 months prior to his death and his looks, while aged, are much better. I have always felt that it did not and does not matter whether his hair was blonde, red, brown or even purple matters at all. It is the genius in the soul of the man that is so very important.

Well, if Robert Dachs was really a friend or not, we can not know. AS for hair color, some people are interested in it, and, there's no harm in asking, but, we have still different opinions about his haircolor. ;) However. I could never watch his last interview. It hurts....

Are we talking about the same "last interview?" He is telling jokes. Remembering his theater and movie times "behind the scenes" when funny things happened. He makes very funny faces. All he is doing is taking an occasional sip of wine..... though, darn it, he is also smoking.... His hair in this appears red though, at some moments that seems nearer a brownish tan. The interview was done in his apartment. Or, in the Wauchau.... I have the impression it is in the city. His face has filled out and he looks, though a little older, more like himself than in the earlier '80's. It was made in August of '04. The photos at the end of Dach's "Ein Nacklang" appeared so distressing to me that someone sent me the other color interview. His appearance there, looking healthier, not so ravaged, was probably due to Felix's having been with him that summer. He had probably not cared what he ate, if anything, but he would care very much about his son and Felix would have made him eat, just as his asking him to stop smoking worked, if only for a while.

Well, there is only one last interview filmed in color, and it was made in 1983 or 1984. I only saw a tiny bit, and stopped it.

We all, I hope, carry him in our hearts. It is what he deserves and deserved. I have many photos around my apartment. It is amazing how many of the people who come in for many reasons, recognize him. They often don't know his name. Sometimes they don't even remember in what film they saw him. Age does not seem to matter. I have had two people react to him that really surprised me. The most recent was one of the cleaners that come in once a month. Most of the people who work for this service have Hispanic or Brazilian backgrounds. This particular young woman, probably in her late 20's, wanted to know who he was because, she said, "He is so beautiful!" Her English is better so she was able to express herself very well. She had the reaction that those of us have had who "see" that inner self or soul shining through his face. Just as you and I do. The other one was just as amazing. This was a man from my cable tv service who noticed him and "remembered him from some movies" though he wasn't sure which films. I told him Oskar's early life story, going through the Nazi annexation as a very intelligent and sensitive teenager. I also mentioned his alcoholism. Hearing of Oskar's early life experiences were enough to make this unusual man say, "No wonder he drank." You find some very unusual souls in the strangest places in life!

Hi Pamela, :) When I see a person before me, or when she speaks with me, or when I hear everybody : I feel more far the apparence. I go in depth. I feel Oskar more far the apparence, like I feel you more far that your words, even if you don't say anything. But also is through the appearance of faces that we find the way to meet someone. I'm a person who respect everybody and everything in silence. I see more far of Oskar's beauty or his apperance : I go to him in "reading" the apparence to understand him. I feel humanity in him, and many qualities. I feel on this picture many things so deep. I love people, but I love certains persons more. Oskar is one of them. And it's for this reason that I'm here. To learn German as just the same reason because all the books about Oskar are in German. To understand: I must to make this effort. :) Friendly, Marie-Jeanne

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Hi everybody! It´s July 6, 2008........and I saw this theme. Marie-Jeanne....Parlez-vous français? Anyway, my hair is exactly the same as Oskar´s..............I was very, very blond until my mid-twenties, when it started getting darker. Now I am about to turn 64, and my actual hair color is a very dark "dirty blond" with lots of gray. So I usually tint it the color it was when I was young, although it seems unimportant now. I too have found that people recognize pictures of Oskar, even if they don´t know who he is! A friend said she remembered him "from the movies." So he made an impression on everybody! I love his eyes and nose! Pamela, do you know what the talisman was he wore around his neck in Interlude? You can see it only in the scene where he and Sally are lying in bed and he´s trying to explain to here how a music score is built up for an orchestra. The chain and talisman/charm/cross looked important to him.......unless he wore it for the character. It wasn´t exactly a cross........I asked this before but nobody answered. Elizabeth :?: :roll: :wink: 8)