Maroun Bagdadi (January 21, 1950 – December 11, 1993) was a Lebanese

Lebanon

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 film director

Film director

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 known for his vivid portrayal of Lebanon

Lebanon

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'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

France

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.

Career

Maroun Bagdadi was arguably Lebanon

Lebanon

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's most prominent filmmaker, one whose work has been seen all over the world. One of his best-known films, "Houroub Saghira" (Little Wars

Little Wars (film)

Little Wars is a 1982 French-Lebanese war film directed by Maroun Bagdadi. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival...

), was shown at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival

1982 Cannes Film Festival

- Jury :*Giorgio Strehler *Jean-Jacques Annaud *Suso Cecchi d'Amico *Geraldine Chaplin *Gabriel García Márquez *Florian Hopf *Sidney Lumet *Mrinal Sen...

, drawing this comment from a prominent film critic: "To make a film about Beirut

Beirut

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 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.

Filmography

• The Girl in the Air (1992)
• Out of Life (1991)
• The Veiled Man(1987)
• Little Wars
  Little Wars (film)
  Little Wars is a 1982 French-Lebanese war film directed by Maroun Bagdadi. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival...
  
   (1982)
• Wispers (1980)
• The Procession (1980)
• We Are All for the Fatherland (1979)
• The Story of a Village and a War (1979)
• The Martyr
  The Martyr
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   (1979)
• Ninety (1978)
• The Most Beautiful of All Mothers (1978)
• Greetings to Kamal Jumblat (1977)
• The South Is Fine, How About You (1976)
• The Majority Is Standing Strong (1976)
• Kafarkala (1976)
• Beirut Oh Beirut (1975)

Awards

• Jury Prize at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival
  1991 Cannes Film Festival
  - Jury :*Roman Polanski *Férid Boughedir *Whoopi Goldberg *Margaret Menegoz *Natalia Negoda *Alan Parker *Jean-Paul Rappeneau *Hans Dieter Seidel *Vittorio Storaro...
  
   for Out of Life (Hors La Vie)
• Jury Honor Prize at the International Leipzig Festival Documentary and Animated Film for Koullouna Lil Watan