Babak Najafi

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Babak Najafi ( Berlinale 2010 )

Babak Najafi Karami ( Persian بابک نجفی, Born September 14, 1975 in Tehran , Iran ) is an Iranian director and screenwriter .

Life

Babak Najafi was born in Tehran as the son of an entrepreneur who sold trucks through an import-export company. With the outbreak of the First Gulf War and the loss of existence, the family moved to Uppsala , Sweden , in the mid-1980s . And although he saw Steve McQueen and Jackie Chan films frequently as a child , Najafi wasn't really keen on making films himself later. It was more like real people to hear his interest stories and weiterzuerzählen he therefore decided, in the 1998 study documentary at the Stockholm University Dramatiska Institutet enroll.

However, after graduating in 2002, Najafi concentrated on short films before making his first feature film with Sebbe in 2010 . The drama about a boy who is an outsider in his life, who builds a bomb and tries to blow up the school, has received critical acclaim and has been nominated and awarded several times for important prizes.

Since Daniél Espinosa had no time for another film project, Najafi took over the direction of Easy Money II (Snabba cash II) , the sequel to Easy Money, in April 2011 . At the end of 2014, filming began on his first English-language project London Has Fallen , the sequel to Antoine Fuqua's Olympus Has Fallen .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1999: Rasten (short film)
  • 2001: Gösta och Lennart (short documentation)
  • 2002: Pablo's Birthday (short film)
  • 2004: Elixir (short film)
  • 2008: Jag förstår inte (short film)
  • 2010: Sebbe
  • 2012: Easy Money II (Snabba cash II)
  • 2016: London Has Fallen

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Babak Najafi on sfi.se (Swedish), accessed October 14, 2011
  2. ^ Daniel Lindvall: Babak Najafi: Learning to See Sweden - in Tehran on filmint.nu from January 1, 2011 (English), accessed on October 14, 2011
  3. ↑ Babak Najafi gör ”Snabba cash 2” on svd.se of April 7, 2011 (Swedish), accessed on October 14, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Najafi, Babak
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Najafi Karami, Babak
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran , Iran