Richard Bohringer decided in 2002 to take the nationality of another country. For what reasons? We’ll explain it to you.
Richard Bohringer is a sensitive artist. In 2023 on Instagram, his daughter Romane Bohringer shared a very moving image of her father, overwhelmed by the audience’s applause, at the end of his performance of Fifteen Round. A sort of last goodbye to the stage. It is also surprising because, at the age of over 80, he managed to survive cancer of the nervous system even though he was very weakened, according to his daughter. Few people know it, but he has a real passion for Africa and more particularly, Senegal, of which he even took nationality in 2002.
Richard Bohringer touched by this country of which he is a national
Richard Bohringer described in a 2016 interview with Geo how the generosity of the inhabitants had won him over. “This continent took me in its arms. He has a sense of sharing. Those who gave me had nothing: they went looking in the holes in their hands.“
He felt adopted, having been raised by his maternal grandmother from a very young age. The actor also fell under the spell of “these incredible colors that fill the eye from morning to evening “and atmosphere.”There is also a prodigious soundtrack, with the singing of the muezzin who knits his rap. Especially the morning song and the 5 p.m. song, for me the most impressive. (…)In the backyard of houses, when we sit under the tree with the old one, with kids running in all directions, chickens pecking at old tires, there we find a little peace.”
Richard Bohringer, ready to star in a film for free for the country of his heart
Richard Bohringer’s unconditional love for this land is such that he is ready to do anything, even doing his job voluntarily, to stay there. He agreed to shoot free of charge in Saint-Louis in Henri Henriol’s film Baobabs do not grow in winter. In an INA archive, he developed his love for this Senegalese city condemned by rising waters.
“It’s nature that fights between them: between the gentle one (pointing to the river) and then, the angry one (the sea Editor’s note) which can be very angry and which moves forward and raps everything and takes its place“, described this lover of wild nature. His eyes full of stars, he expresses his fascination for these landscapes. “It’s a flying saucer, Saint-Louis. Saint-Louis is suspended like an apparition. It’s very, very beautiful“.
