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Majid Majidi is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Original Music Composer Iranien born on 17 april 1959 at Tehran (Iran)

Majid Majidi

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Birth name Majid Majidi
Nationality Iran
Birth 17 april 1959 (64 years) at Tehran (Iran)

Majid Majidi (Persian: مجید مجیدی‎‎ [mæˌd͡ʒiːde mæd͡ʒiːˈdi], born 17 April 1959, Tehran) is an Iranian film director, film producer, and screenwriter. In his films, Majidi has touched on many themes and genres and has won numerous international awards.

Biography

Born in an Iranian middle-class family, he grew up in Tehran and at the age of 14 he started acting in amateur theater groups. He then studied at the Institute of Dramatic Arts in Tehran.

After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, his interest in cinema brought him to act in various films, most notably Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Boycott in 1985.

In 1998, Majidi directed the film Children of Heaven, which was nominated to receive the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Though it lost to the Italian film Life Is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni, Children of Heaven is the first Iranian film to have been nominated by the Academy.

Majidi has directed several other feature films since Children of Heaven: The Color of Paradise in 2000, Baran in 2001, and The Willow Tree in 2005 (alternate English title One Life More). He also recently directed a feature-length documentary titled Barefoot to Herat which chronicles life in refugee camps and the city of Herat during and after the anti-Taliban offensive of 2001.

In 2008, Majidi's acclaimed film The Song of Sparrows was the opening film of the Visakhapatnam International Film Festival in India.

Majid Majidi was one of five international film directors invited by the Beijing government to create a documentary short film to introduce the city of Beijing, in preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics which was held in the Chinese capital; the project was titled "Vision Beijing".

Majidi pulled out of a Danish film festival in protest against the publication in Denmark of cartoons satirizing the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. Majidi stated that he was withdrawing "to protest against insulting any religious belief or icon". Majidi writes, "I believe in God and live with my beliefs in every single moment of my life. I would like to protest against insulting any religious belief and icon. For this reason, I would like to announce my withdrawal from your festival.

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Filmography of Majid Majidi (11 films)

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Actor

Baduk
Baduk (1992)
, 1h30
Directed by Majid Majidi
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Majid Majidi
Rating64% 3.2379353.2379353.2379353.2379353.237935
Jafar and his sister Jamal are separated from their parents after their father is killed in a well cave-in. While walking along the road, the siblings are kidnapped and sold into slavery. Jamal is dressed in fancy silks, destined to be the playmate of a Saudi prince. Jafar is drafted into a band of child baduki, bringing goods across the border between
Boycott
Boycott (1986)
, 1h54
Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Actors Majid Majidi, Ebrahim Abadi
Roles Valeh
Rating58% 2.902522.902522.902522.902522.90252

Director

Muhammad: The Messenger of God, 2h58
Directed by Majid Majidi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films about Islam
Actors Mahdi Pakdel, Amin Tarokh, Sareh Bayat, Rana Azadivar, Dariush Farhang
Rating72% 3.6478853.6478853.6478853.6478853.647885
Le récit se déroule au cours du vie siècle et tourne autour du prophète de l'islam Muhammad, de sa naissance à l'âge de 13 ans.
The Song of Sparrows
Directed by Majid Majidi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Themes Films about animals, Films about birds
Actors Reza Naji
Rating78% 3.947533.947533.947533.947533.94753
Karim works at an ostrich farm outside of Tehran, Iran. He leads a simple and contented life in his small house with his wife Narges, and three children, whom he loves and tries to make happy.
Baran
Baran (2001)
, 1h34
Directed by Majid Majidi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Reza Naji, Christopher Maleki
Rating77% 3.897013.897013.897013.897013.89701
It is winter in Teheran. Lateef is 17. He works at a building construction site managed by MEMAR, the site foreman. Lateef's job is to serve tea and prepare food for the workers with whom he is always quarrelling. The workers come from all parts of Iran, particularly from Iranian Azerbaijan (Azeris are referred as "Turks" in the film). Some workers are Afghan refugees from war-torn Afghanistan. They have no identity cards and are employed illegally as cheap labour. When the labour inspectors show up, the Afghan workers must hide.
The Father
The Father (1999)
, 1h36
Directed by Majid Majidi
Genres Drama
Rating73% 3.693063.693063.693063.693063.69306
Fourteen-year-old Mehrollah's father is killed while a passenger on the motorcycle that Mehrollah is learning to ride. To support his family, Mehrollah takes a job in the city. Upon returning for a visit, he learns from his friend Latif that his mother has remarried to a policeman and moved to a larger house. This deeply angers Mehrollah, who refuses to
The Color of Paradise, 1h30
Directed by Majid Majidi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about disabilities
Rating80% 4.046574.046574.046574.046574.04657
The story revolves around a blind boy named Mohammed who is released from his special school in Tehran for summer vacation. His father, shamed and burdened by Mohammed's blindness, arrives late to pick him up and then tries to convince the headmaster to keep Mohammed over the summer. The headmaster refuses, so Mohammed's father eventually takes him home.
Children of Heaven, 1h29
Directed by Majid Majidi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Reza Naji, Christopher Maleki
Rating81% 4.0987754.0987754.0987754.0987754.098775
The film starts with Ali (Amir Farrokh Hashemian) fetching his little sister Zahra's (Bahare Seddiqi), pink shoes after a cobbler has repaired them. He leaves them unattended to buy some potatoes. While he is pre-occupied, a homeless man picks up the shoes, hidden in a bag, thinking it was garbage and takes them away. Frantic to find them, the young boy thinking the shoes fell behind the crates knocks over plates of vegetables and is chased away by the grocer.
Baduk
Baduk (1992)
, 1h30
Directed by Majid Majidi
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Majid Majidi
Rating64% 3.2379353.2379353.2379353.2379353.237935
Jafar and his sister Jamal are separated from their parents after their father is killed in a well cave-in. While walking along the road, the siblings are kidnapped and sold into slavery. Jamal is dressed in fancy silks, destined to be the playmate of a Saudi prince. Jafar is drafted into a band of child baduki, bringing goods across the border between

Scriptwriter

Muhammad: The Messenger of God, 2h58
Directed by Majid Majidi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films about Islam
Actors Mahdi Pakdel, Amin Tarokh, Sareh Bayat, Rana Azadivar, Dariush Farhang
Roles Writer
Rating72% 3.6478853.6478853.6478853.6478853.647885
Le récit se déroule au cours du vie siècle et tourne autour du prophète de l'islam Muhammad, de sa naissance à l'âge de 13 ans.
Bumm Bumm Bole
Directed by Priyadarshan
Genres Drama
Actors Darsheel Safary, Atul Kulkarni, Rituparna Sengupta, Ziyah Vastani, Sulabha Deshpande, Kaveri Jha
Rating62% 3.101533.101533.101533.101533.10153
Character development is very important in this film. Khogiram (Atul Kulkarni), his wife (Rituparna Sengupta) and their children Pinu (Darsheel) and Rimzim (Zia) belong to a terrorist dominated region. Khogiram and Ritu have a hand-to-mouth income working for a tea plantation and can barely manage things. The kids are affected by this as well. They go to a respectable school as it is Khogiram's ambition to give them the educational opportunities he missed. But the financial crunch makes it difficult for kids to match the standards of the school. They don't have enough money for uniform or shoes. Things become worse when Pinu misplaces Rimzim's only pair of shoes in the vegetable shop. Pinu tells Rimzim about the shoes and begs her not to tell their mother; she agrees.
The Song of Sparrows
Directed by Majid Majidi
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Themes Films about animals, Films about birds
Actors Reza Naji
Roles Writer
Rating78% 3.947533.947533.947533.947533.94753
Karim works at an ostrich farm outside of Tehran, Iran. He leads a simple and contented life in his small house with his wife Narges, and three children, whom he loves and tries to make happy.