Mayrig - Heimat in der Fremde

You may watch this film and not pay so much attention on it. But being Armenian, you would understand the whole meaning which the author wanted to explain. If you are not Armenian, you would never understand the tragedy of our people.As in the beginning of our century about 1,5 million people were killed and this is a film which describes the life of a simple Armenian family which could rescue. They rescued and started to live an absolutely different life in a foreign country among foreign people. Watching this film, the parts describing the genocide my eyes get wet,as I know that all this horror really took place.I read a lot about it. Children,pregnant women,the old were cut with jataghans. the turkish soldiers and kurdist bandits cut noses,ears,lips of the priests,people from big villages were killed in a day.And so on, and so on. Forgive them,God.Now we are to live with this tragedy in our hearts.Our grandfathers were killed.And till now the Turkish dare to say that there was no genocide and even the Armenians made a genocide,meanwhile many countries in the world realizing everything proved this fact in their parlaments. "Mayrig" is a tragic film making each Armenian person think about his life.I feel that this film gave me a lot.Thanks to the makers of "Mayrig".

Not only this movie is based on a real story, it also displays breathtaking scenes of bravery, drama, melodrama. It is hard to stay an indifferent towards human tragedies after watching this. This movie is also a story of one family-that bears wisdom of its ancestors to start a fresh new life in France. Just watch and you will not regret.

Incredibly emotional film, one of the best movies in the history

This is a very moving film about the big tragedy of the Armenian people who were slaughtered in millions by the turks in 1915, or rather about the ones who escaped and who after seeing their whole families murdered, had to make a life in a foreign country, while trying to deal with the past, or at least not to let the past destroy them. Superb acting from Claudia Cardinale, Omar Shariff, Isabelle Sadoyan and Nathalie Roussel. It goes in the line with films like "La Gloire de mon pere" and " le chateau de ma mere". Giving a very good description of what was life was in the South of France at the beginning of the centuries, and what were the people expectations (at least, that is how I feel it). If you are expecting violence and gore, that is not what you will get here. Also, let us not forget that the "Armenian Genocide" has never been acknowledged by the Turkish Government, and was only recognised last year by the French one.

A film which shows the whole horibility of genocide (without any big bloody scenes of that) and how a nation have overcome that with it's generations.It's a film about true Armenian family values,about hope and love,about willingness to live and to create!!!