

135 minutes
1/14/1992
A successful playwright reflects on his journey from his Armenian roots to adapting in France, forty years after his family's move to Marseilles. He now goes by a new name to fit in better with French society.

Richard Berry
as Pierre Zakar

Claudia Cardinale
as Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian

Omar Sharif
as Hagop Zakarian

Jacques Villeret
as Alexandre Pagès

Zabou Breitman
as Astrid Setian

Nathalie Roussel
as Gayane

Diane Bellego
as Carole

Jacky Nercessian
as Apkar

Isabelle Sadoyan
as Anna

Sylvie Joly
as Georgette Sylva
Cédric Doucet
as Azad age 7
Tom Ponsin
as Azad age 12
Stéphane Servais
as Azad age 20

Danièle Lebrun
as Alexandre's mother

Ginette Garcin
as Madame Crespel

Ève Ruggieri
as Self

Maurice Chevit
as Nazareth

Jean-Pierre Delage
as Doctor Philibert

Henry Djanik
as Actor in the play
André Julien
as Druggist Anzani
Philippe Dehesdin

Raoul Curet

Jean-Gabriel Nordmann
Pierre-Olivier Faïs
Nicolas Vacaro
as Tigrane
Christophe Combettes

Alexis Tomassian
as Adrien, Pierre Zakar's son
Jennifer Bostroem

Jacques Ciron

Bernard Spiegel

Pierre Belot

Marie Verdi

Bernard Bireaud

Gérard Dessalles

Salah Teskouk

Stéphane Slima
as Actor in the play

Nicole Gueden
Pascale Quelfennec

Étienne Bartholomeus

Jean-Michel Molé

Véronique Kapoyan

Brigitte Barry

Dorothée Picard

Bernard Musson
as Butler

Henri Verneuil
as Priest in an Armenian church (uncredited)