Maroun Bagdadi

Known for DirectingBorn 1950-01-21Died 1993-12-10Lebanon

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Médecins des hommes

Beirut, Oh Beirut

We Are All for the Fatherland

Chillers

The Girl in the Air

Room 666

Greetings to Kamal Jumblatt

The Little Wars

The Most Beautiful of All Mothers

Out of Life

The Story of a Village and a War

War on War

Whispers

The Veiled Man

Les Jupons de la révolution

Director on the Edge of Reality

Lebanon, the Land of Honey and Incense

Achoura