| Mayrig | |
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 Mayrig movie poster | |
| Directed by | Henri Verneuil |
| Written by | Henri Verneuil |
| Produced by | Tarak Ben Ammar Mark Lombardo |
| Starring | Claudia Cardinale Omar Sharif Nathalie Roussel |
| Cinematography | Edmond Richard |
| Edited by | Henri Lanoë |
| Music by | Jean-Claude Petit |
| Distributed by | AMLF |
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Running time | 157 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Mayrig (Mother) is a 1991 semi-autobiographical film written and directed by French-Armenian filmmaker Henri Verneuil. The film's principal cast includes Claudia Cardinale and Omar Sharif as parents of Azad (Henri Verneuil depicted as child). Mayrig means mother in Armenian. The film is about the struggles of an Armenian family that emigrates to France from Turkey after the Armenian genocide of 1915.
For the film's main soundtrack, Verneuil used the traditional Armenian song "Dle Yaman".
Following the film's success, Verneuil edited the movie into a television series. He followed that up with 588 rue paradis, a sequel to the original movie.