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.
The Italians have bocce ball, and the French have a similar game, boules. This is played (generally in the southern part of the country) with steel balls on a packed-earth court. While these games have a bucolic, countrified and even genteel air about them, competition and betting are fierce. In this sports/crime thriller, a young man whose father was killed for violating the unspoken roles of the game in professional competition trains with his grandfather to become a champion boules player just like his father.
A married woman, Anne Lambert has a child with her lover. But her lover becomes afraid and refuses to recognize the baby. Very invested in her career, Anne, an architect, decides to raise her child alone.
Jean Panisse (17 March 1928 – 1 January 2021) was a French actor. Panisse debuted his acting career by starring in the French movie Les Révoltés du Danaé. Panisse died from complications of COVID-19 on 1 January 2021, at the age of 92, during the COVID-19 pandemic in France. Source: Article "Jean Panisse" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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