Acting
Babek Ahmadpour
Place of birth
Koker, Iran
Known for
Acting
Credits
5 titles
Babak Ahamadpour, born in 1979 (or 1358 in the Persian calender) in the village of Koker in Rudbar County, Gilan Province of Iran, is an Iranian boy who is very well known in Iranian cinema and cinephile circles as the main protagonist Ahmed Ahmadpour in Where Is The Friend’s directed by Abbas Kiarostami, which is widely considered one of the greatest films of Iranian and global cinema, alongside his brother named similarly Ahmad Ahamdpour who plays the character’s best friend Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh. He grew up with almost no exposure to media, and later recalled, “we had never seen television or a camera, and did not even know what film was”. In late-1986, Kiarostami had been taking a tr…
Known for
7.9An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
Where Is The Friend's House?
1987
7.4When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.
Through the Olive Trees
1994
7.0A documentary about Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami first aired on the French television series Cinema de Notre Temps.
Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams
1994
NRA week after the death of Abbas Kiarostami, a film group travels to the location where the famous Koker trilogy was shot to see if the actors of the films and the people of the region know about Kiarostami's death or not.
And Kiarostami Goes On
2018
NRA documentary that details the lives of Babak and Ahmad Ahmadpour 30 years after they starred as amateur child actors in Abbas Kiarostami's Koker Trilogy.
Tree of Life
2019
Film credits
2010s · 2 titles
NRA week after the death of Abbas Kiarostami, a film group travels to the location where the famous Koker trilogy was shot to see if the actors of the films and the people of the region know about Kiarostami's death or not.
And Kiarostami Goes On
2018
NRA documentary that details the lives of Babak and Ahmad Ahmadpour 30 years after they starred as amateur child actors in Abbas Kiarostami's Koker Trilogy.
Tree of Life
2019
1990s · 2 titles
7.4When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.
Through the Olive Trees
1994
7.0A documentary about Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami first aired on the French television series Cinema de Notre Temps.
Abbas Kiarostami: Truths and Dreams
1994