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Maroun Bagdadi

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
2

Gender
Male

Birthday
January 21, 1950 (76 years old)

Place of Birth
Lebanon

Maroun Bagdadi

Biography

Maroun Bagdadi (Arabic: مارون بغدادي‎; January 21, 1950 – December 11, 1993) was a Lebanese film director known for his vivid portrayal of Lebanon's civil war. Bagdadi was internationally the best-known Lebanese filmmaker of his generation. He worked with American producer/director Francis Coppola and made several films in French that became hits in France.

Maroun Bagdadi was arguably Lebanon's most prominent filmmaker, one whose work has been seen all over the world. One of his best-known films, Houroub Saghira (Little Wars), was shown at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, drawing this comment from a prominent film critic: "To make a film about Beirut that eschews polemics for more universal, more human issues is an achievement." His first Lebanese production was for television, an educational program called 7½. In 1975, he directed his first feature film, Beyrouth Ya Beyrouth. Koullouna Lil Watan, a 75-minute documentary produced in 1979, won the Jury Honor Prize at the International Leipzig Festival Documentary and Animated Film.

Known For

Directing

1992The Girl in the Air...Director
1991Out of Life...Director
1990Chillers...Director
1989Les Jupons de la révolution...Director
1988Médecins des hommes...Director
1988Lebanon, the Land of Honey and Incense...Director
1987The Veiled Man...Director
1984Achoura...Director
1983War on War...Director
1982The Little Wars...Director
1980Whispers...Director
1979The Story of a Village and a War...Director
1979We Are All for the Fatherland...Director
1978The Most Beautiful of All Mothers...Director
1977Greetings to Kamal Jumblatt...Director
1975Beirut, Oh Beirut...Director

Writing

1992The Girl in the Air...Writer
1991Out of Life...Screenplay
1989Les Jupons de la révolution...Scenario Writer
1988Lebanon, the Land of Honey and Incense...Writer
1987The Veiled Man...Writer
1982The Little Wars...Screenplay
1977Greetings to Kamal Jumblatt...Writer
1975Beirut, Oh Beirut...Writer

Production

1982The Little Wars...Producer

Acting

2013Director on the Edge of Realityas himself
1985Room 666as Self