Mayrig

• Claudia Cardinale as Araxi ( Mayrig )
• Omar Sharif as Hagop
• Isabelle Sadoyan as Anna
• Nathalie Roussel as Gayane
• Jackie Nercessian as Apkar
• Cédric Doucet as Asad (6- year)
• Tom Ponsin as Asad (12 - year)
• Stéphane Servais as Asad (20 - year)

Mayrig - home away from home is a feature film by French director and screenwriter Henri Verneuil in 1991, he processed the biography of the Armenian -born director and forms the first part of a family chronicle..

Action

Azad Zakarian was born in May 1915 the year of the Armenian genocide. In 1921, he flees with Araxi mother, father Hagop and the aunts Anna and Gayane before ethnic persecution from Turkey to France. The family is trying to set up a new life in Marseille, must deal with the difficulties of integration in a foreign country. The film depicts the childhood and youth Asad, where he discovered his love for film.

Reception

A continuation of the family chronicle, the film Mayrig - The Road to Paradise ( Original title: 588 rue paradis ), was created in 1992 because of the large audience success in France Verneuil wrote a TV series of the same name that aired on French television in 1993..

Criticism

" The epic convinced most likely due to its rousing memories of a dark chapter of contemporary history; the family history suffers schematic characterization and overly nostalgic coloring. "

Awards

The soundtrack by Jean -Claude Petit for the French César film award nominated. 1991 the film won the National Film Award of the Academy of France.