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Wednesday, March 29th, 2023 4:43 PM

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How do I add a credit to a director's name?

In Moroccan director Hakim Noury's page, only 4 films are directed.

He made many more films, one of them is one of the most popular and controversial films of the 90s: Stolen Childhood. I was surprised not to find a page on IMDb, and so I can't send a link.

Here are some pages that prove that the film exists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Childhood_(film)


https://mubi.com/fr/films/the-stolen-childhood

As a matter of fact, the film is available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtTtGBY2pG0

I was about to submit a review for the film and for the first time in 12 years (and more than 2000 reviews) I find the film inexistant on my favorite database.

I tried to add the entry on the director's page but I realized I had to pick an existing title, so I'm kind of stuck right now. Can anybody add that film on the director's page?

It's a marvel of Moroccan cinema, a sort of neo-realistic masterpiece à la De Sica treating the subject of little servants being abused and mistreated in their houses.

Thanks for your help,

ElMo

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ElMo: I'm surprised that this film got included in Wikipedia without having an IMDb entry, but as Sandy indicated, it will have to be entered as a New Title to the database.

It's not possible to add a new title to the database by adding the title to an existing person's filmography. By contrast, it is possible to add a new person to the database by adding their name to the cast or crew of an existing title.

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I did find that a slightly surprising too, especially for the English-language Wikipedia, but the particular article is what Wikipedia categorized as a stub, on top of it being a French film and not much information about it being recorded there, such as cast, crew and running time. I can see how this might be a case of a film being harder to document on IMDb than on Wikipedia. A volunteer may have to go digging for all the mandatory information needed to create a new title page.

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Well, it took me half an hour but it was worth it, glad I could contribute to my country's cinema by adding one of its most important films on IMDb.

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Thanks everyone!