GERMANY: SIR RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH UNVEILS HIS NEW FILM 'GREY OWL' IN BERLIN.

Record ID: 389604

  • Title: GERMANY: SIR RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH UNVEILS HIS NEW FILM 'GREY OWL' IN BERLIN.
  • Date: 4th April 2000
  • Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (APRIL 4, 2000) (REUTERS ACCESS ALL) SOUNDBITE (English) LORD RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH, DIRECTOR, SAYING: He is a very professional actor. For instance, we shipped the particular canoe that he required with the paddles to Los Angeles in order that whenever he had free time he could practice so that when he came to play the scenes involving canoeing he was not
  • Embargoed: 19th April 2000 13:00
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  • Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA38QP6ZVPQB0WV40WAEL4E6JJF
  • Story Text: Oscar winning director Sir Richard Attenborough has unveiled his latest historical epic 'Grey Owl,' in Berlin - and spoke to Reuters about the making of his true-life study of an extraordinary North American 'woodsman' - who travelled to London to visit the King of England.
    Oscar winning director Sir Richard Attenborough has unveiled his latest historical epic 'Grey Owl,' in Berlin - and spoke to Reuters about the making of his film about an extraordinary real-life North American woodsman - who travelled to London to visit the King of England.
    In a departure from saving the world as 007, Pierce Brosnan, plays 'Grey Owl, ' born Archie Belaney from Hastings in England, who at the age of seventeen emigrated to Canada to realise his long-time fantasy of becoming a native American Indian.
    Archie joins the tribe of the Ojibwa Indians and becomes Grey Owl, discovering the beauty and wilderness of Canada's Saskatchwan province.
    He learns how to survive Canada's cold winters and how to set up traps to catch beavers in order to sell their fur - until Grey Owl meets Anahareo, the Mohawk woman everyone calls Pony, played by twenty-one year-old French-Canadian actress Annie Gallipeau.
    The cruelty of trapping appalls Pony and after two beaver's die in Grey Owls traps she persuades him to rescue their kittens and give up trapping.
    Grey Owl and pony fall in love and eventually get married.
    The real Archie Belaney turned Grey Owl toured Britain for three months lecturing on life in the wilderness of Canada - he even met King George VI.
    Attenborough recalled meeting the real Grey Owl when he and his younger brother David went to see him at the age of twelve or thirteen.
    "It was 1935 or 1936.I was twelve or thirteen and my younger brother David and I queued up for five hours to see this man because he was a total phenomenon.Nobody had seen coloured faces, Indian color or black colour in the mid-30s, recalls Attenborough.
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