
Maroun Bagdadi
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1950-01-21
Day of Death
1993-12-10 (43 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
Acting
(2013)
Director on the Edge of Reality
as himself
(1982)
Room 666
as Self
Crew
(1992)
The Girl in the Air
Director, Writer
(1991)
Out of Life
Director, Screenplay
(1988)
(1987)
The Veiled Man
Director, Writer
(1984)
Achoura
Director
(1983)
War on War
Director
(1982)
The Little Wars
Screenplay, Director, Producer
(1980)
Whispers
Director
(1979)
We Are All for the Fatherland
Director
(1979)
The Story of a Village and a War
Director
(1978)
(1977)
Greetings to Kamal Jumblatt
Writer, Director
(1975)
Beirut, Oh Beirut
Director, Writer