Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Marseilles when he was a young child. He later recounted his childhood experience in the novel Mayrig, which he dedicated to his mother and made into this 1991 film with the same name.
Henri Verneuil
Writer, Director
Claudia Cardinale
Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian
Omar Sharif
Hagop Zakarian
Nathalie Roussel
Gayané (Kayané)
Isabelle Sadoyan
Anna
Jacky Nercessian
Apkar
Richard Berry
Pierre Zakar (voice only)
Cédric Doucet
Azad age 7
Tom Ponsin
Azad age 12
Stéphane Servais
Azad age 20
My Dinner with Hervé62%
L'Argent69%
Mercenaire58%
Fast Girls60%
Barbara59%
Stavisky...59%
The Audrey Hepburn Story61%
The Most Hated Woman in America61%
Hands of Stone66%
Cocaine Godmother63%
Effie Gray59%
Salomé61%
Dalíland59%
Chaos63%
Dalida66%
Fedora67%
Skin63%
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius59%
Battle of the Year67%
Eleanor the Great68%
