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Henri Verneuil
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15 October 1920 - 11 January 2002
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The famous French film director and screenwriter Henri Verneuil was of Armenian origin. His real name is Ashot Malakyan. The future creator of crime and adventure films was born on October 15, 1920 in the Turkish town of Rhodosto, but in 1924, after the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, his family moved to Marseille.
Verney called himself the son of the Armenian church, and therefore of Armenian culture. From the age of five, Ashot kept a candle in Armenian churches.
Talented since childhood,
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The famous French film director and screenwriter Henri Verneuil was of Armenian origin. His real name is Ashot Malakyan.
The future creator of crime and adventure films was born on October 15, 1920 in the Turkish town of Rhodosto, but in 1924, after the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, his family moved to Marseille.
Verney called himself the son of the Armenian church, and therefore of Armenian culture. From the age of five, Ashot kept a candle in Armenian churches.
Talented since childhood, the young man graduated from the lyceum in Equan Provence, worked as a journalist, and in 1948 began to shoot short films, while only looking at the art of creating a full-length film.
The first such picture appeared on the screen in 1951. It was.
"Table for Sniffles" Marcel Aime. The film was received favorably and brought the director fame. So began the career of Henri Vernay, for which he directed more than 60 films, in which he played, including such famous actors as Jean Gabin, Alain Delon,
Charles Aznavour Music by Georges Garvarentz.
Henri Vernei’s latest cinematic works were also, one way or another, devoted to Armenia and Armenians. These are the historical and biographical films Paradis Street, 588 House and Mairik. In them, on the example of his own family history, Verney tells about the horrors and consequences of the genocide to which the Armenian population of Turkey was subjected. According to the magazine “Paris Match”, the film “Maurik” became the most expensive picture of European cinema. However, for Henri Vernay it was the work of his life.
Henri Verney died in Paris on January 11, 2002. French President Jacques Chirac, the first to offer his condolences to the family of the deceased, said Vernay is part of a legend of French cinema. Verne during his lifetime received a huge number of awards, including “Oscar” for the best script of the film “Such different fates”. Henri Vernay has a posthumous award. During the Yerevan film festival “Golden Apricot”, in 2010 he was awarded the Parajanov Prize “for his contribution to world cinema”. /