FILM DIRECTOR

Majid Majidi

1959 - Today

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Majid Majidi (Persian: مجید مجیدی, romanized: Majīd Majīdī) is an Iranian filmmaker and producer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Majid Majidi has received more than 988,565 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Majid Majidi is the 678th most popular film director (down from 632nd in 2019), the 310th most popular biography from Iran (down from 270th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Iranian Film Director.

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  • 36

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  • 4.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Majid Majidi ranks 678 out of 2,041. Before him are Tomoyuki Tanaka, Andrew Niccol, James Gunn, W. S. Van Dyke, Burt Kennedy, and Vilgot Sjöman. After him are Ruy Guerra, Billy Hayes, Terence Davies, Paul Mazursky, Aaron Russo, and Alejandro Amenábar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Majid Majidi ranks 149. Before him are Ezzaki Badou, Éric Serra, Mauricio Funes, Nir Barkat, Akhmed Zakayev, and Michel Onfray. After him are Toni Servillo, Pete Burns, Gustavo Cerati, Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Nobuo Uematsu, and Jason Alexander.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Majid Majidi ranks 310 out of 631. Before him are Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (1886), Kushyar Gilani (971), Mahmoud Shabestari (1288), Azar Nafisi (1955), Ali Akbar Velayati (1945), and Sayed Morad Khan (1800). After him are Shaun Toub (1963), Jamshid Amouzegar (1923), Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani (1931), Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (1923), Farrokhroo Parsa (1922), and Kamal-ol-molk (1848).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Iran

Among film directors born in Iran, Majid Majidi ranks 7. Before him are Abbas Kiarostami (1940), Dariush Mehrjui (1939), Jafar Panahi (1960), Barbet Schroeder (1941), Asghar Farhadi (1972), and Shirin Neshat (1957). After him are Mohsen Makhmalbaf (1957), Masoud Kimiai (1941), Ali Hatami (1944), Hossein Shahabi (1967), Bahman Ghobadi (1969), and Rakhshān Banietemad (1954).

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Filmography

Children of Heaven
Director
Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes. School awaits.
Aug 1st 19977.9 / 10
The Color of Paradise
Director
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.
Feb 8th 19997.515 / 10
Baran
Director
On a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.
Jan 31st 20017.507 / 10