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    12 years ago world bid farewell to famous Armenian: life and activity
    of Henri Verneuil

    16:59, 11 January, 2014


    YEREVAN, JANUARY 11, ARMENPRESS: `Time does not exist and Henri is
    always in our hearts...' - the incomparable star of the world cinema
    Claudia Cardinale, having played the main role in the movie `Mayrik',
    told about the famous French Armenian film director Henri Verneuil. On
    the
    occasion of the 12th death anniversary Armenpress reports about the
    life and activity of the popular artist.

    Director Henri Verneuil was born Ashot Malakyan 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 `Mayrik' (The Mother),
    which he dedicated to his mother and the Armenian Genocide and made
    into a 1991 film with the same name, which was followed by a sequel,
    588 Rue Paradis, the following year.

    Verneuil is the director of the video of the song `To you, Armenia'
    devoted to the Spitak Earthquake of 1988 (lyrics by Charles Aznavour,
    music by Diran Garvarentz).

    Verneuil enrolled in 1943 at the Ecole Navale des Arts et Métiers at
    Aix-en-Provence, where he studied engineering. He then pursued a
    career in journalism, working as the editor-in-chief of the magazine
    Horizon in 1944-1946 and as a film critic for a Marseilles radio
    station. In 1947, he had an idea for a short film set in Marseilles
    and proposed it to the famous comedian Fernandel. The comic liked it,
    and thus began a long-lasting partnership which produced such popular
    film hits as Forbidden Fruit, The Sheep Has Five Legs, and The Cow and
    I.

    Verneuil also had an important collaboration with Jean Gabin, starting
    with Les Gens sans Importance in 1955 and continuing with A Monkey in
    Winter, Any Number Can Win, and The Sicilian Clan in 1969. The
    commercial success of those films was invaluable to the filmmaker, and
    opened the door to a number
    of big-budget international productions, including The 25th Hour, Guns
    for San Sebastian (both starring Anthony Quinn), and Night Flight to
    Moscow starring Yul Brynner and Henry Fonda. Ironically, however,
    these projects did not turn out to be as successful as his French-made
    action thrillers with Jean-Paul Belmondo: The Burglars, Night Caller,
    and Les Morfalous. Verneuil received an honorary César award in 1996
    for the body of his work. He died in January 2002.

    http://armenpress.am/eng/news/745892/12-years-ago-world-bid-farewell-to-famous-armenian-life-and-activity-of-henri-verneuil.html

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