FILM DIRECTOR

Bahman Ghobadi

1969 - Today

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Bahman Ghobadi (Persian: بهمن قبادی; Kurdish: به‌همه‌ن قوبادی, romanized: Behmen Qubadî; born 1 February 1969) is an Iranian Kurdish film director, producer and writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bahman Ghobadi has received more than 187,904 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Bahman Ghobadi is the 1,316th most popular film director (down from 1,172nd in 2019), the 414th most popular biography from Iran (down from 350th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Iranian Film Director.

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  • 45.14

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  • 34

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  • 4.24

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  • 3.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Bahman Ghobadi ranks 1,316 out of 2,041. Before him are Charles Reisner, Tosca Musk, Melville Shavelson, Yuli Raizman, Peter Berg, and Catherine Corsini. After him are Javier Aguirresarobe, Lee Garmes, Carl Foreman, Darren Star, Peter Farrelly, and Jonathan Lynn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Bahman Ghobadi ranks 308. Before him are Zoran Primorac, Fran, Kazushi Sakuraba, Tony Cetinski, Steve McQueen, and David Mitchell. After him are Maher Al-Mu'aiqly, Myles Kennedy, Oriol Junqueras, Vitaliy Parakhnevych, Halvard Hanevold, and Martin Klebba.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Bahman Ghobadi ranks 414 out of 631. Before him are Harold Nicolson (1886), Ali Karimi (1978), Masih Alinejad (1976), Hossein Shahabi (1967), Mina Ahadi (1956), and Alireza Faghani (1978). After him are Mahmoud Namjoo (1918), Shahrnush Parsipur (1946), Nazanin Boniadi (1979), Leila Hatami (1972), Abd al-Samad (1500), and Guity Novin (1944).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Iran

Among film directors born in Iran, Bahman Ghobadi ranks 12. Before him are Shirin Neshat (1957), Majid Majidi (1959), Mohsen Makhmalbaf (1957), Masoud Kimiai (1941), Ali Hatami (1944), and Hossein Shahabi (1967). After him are Rakhshān Banietemad (1954), Mohammad Rasoulof (1972), Ali Abbasi (1981), Samira Makhmalbaf (1980), and Hossein Rajabian (1984).

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Filmography

Turtles Can Fly
Director
Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iran border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.
Jan 7o 20057.689 / 10
The Wind Will Carry Us
Director
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
Sep 6o 19997.106 / 10
A Time for Drunken Horses
Director
After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq.
Sep 13o 20007.583 / 10