Known For
Directing
Born
Jan 21, 1950
Died
Dec 10, 1993
Place of Birth
Lebanon
Credits
18 titles
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
Filmography
Director on the Edge of Reality
himself
The Girl in the Air
Director
Out of Life
Director
Chillers
Director
Les Jupons de la révolution
Director
Médecins des hommes
Director
Lebanon, the Land of Honey and Incense
Director
The Veiled Man
Director
Room 666
Self
Achoura
Director
War on War
Director
The Little Wars
Screenplay
Whispers
Director
We Are All for the Fatherland
Director
The Story of a Village and a War
Director
The Most Beautiful of All Mothers
Director
Greetings to Kamal Jumblatt
Writer
Beirut, Oh Beirut
Director