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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.

Claudia Cardinale
Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian

Omar Sharif
Hagop Zakarian

Nathalie Roussel
Gayane

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

Serge Avédikian
Vaksen Papasian

Michèle Bardollet
Madeleine

Christian Barbier
Father Pignon

Patrick Timsit
Garbis, locksmith

Nicolas Silberg
Lawyer

Denis Podalydès
Soghomon Tehlirian

Jean-Pierre Delage
Doctor Philibert
André Julien
Monsieur Anzani

Ticky Holgado
Zakarians' angry and racist neighbor

Jean Panisse
Butcher

Claudie Arif

Yvette Petit

Paulette Frantz
Madame Pellegrin, concierge

Inge Offerman

Gilles Treton

Marie-France Santon

Bernard Freyd
Doctor Lehimberg

Philippe Morier-Genoud
Prosecutor

Patrick Gourevitch
Clerk

Mireille Franchino
Pierre-Olivier Faïs
Alexandre age 7
Christophe Combettes
Sébastien Rochelle
Vartanian

Gérard Torikian

Vince Castello

Mario Luraschi

Patrick Steltzer

Francine Olivier
Henri Meliani

Véronique Delestaing

Jean-Gabriel Nordmann
Gérard Billon
Hubert Foulon

Georges Wilson
(uncredited)
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