Mayrig - home away from home
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German title | Mayrig - home away from home |
Original title | Mayrig |
Country of production | France |
original language | French |
Publishing year | 1991 |
length | 157 minutes |
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Director | Henri Verneuil |
script | Henri Verneuil |
production | Tarak Ben Ammar |
music | Jean-Claude Petit |
camera | Edmond Richard |
cut | Henri Lanoë |
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Mayrig - Heimat in der Fremde (original title: Mayrig ) is a feature film by the French director and screenwriter Henri Verneuil from 1991. It processes the biography of the director of Armenian origin 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 fled from Turkey to France with his mother Araxi, father Hagop and aunts Anna and Gayané from ethnic persecution . The family tries to find a new life in Marseille , but has to deal with the difficulties of integration in a foreign country. The film depicts Asad's childhood and youth, in which 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 made in 1992.
criticism
“The epic is most likely to impress with its stirring memories of a dark chapter in contemporary history; the family history suffers from schematic character drawings and overly nostalgic coloring. "
Awards
Jean-Claude Petit's film music was nominated for the French César Film Prize. In 1991 the film won the French National Film Academy Award .
Web links
- Mayrig - home away from home in the Internet Movie Database (English)