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Out of Life(1991)
Status: Released
Date: 1991-05-15
58%
19 Votes
Time: 1h 37m
Overview:
Patrick Perrault, a photo-journalist covering the war in Beirut in the late 1980s, is himself caught up in the hostilities when one day he is picked up and bundled into a car at gun-point. Blind-folded, he is taken to an unknown location where he discovers that he is being taken hostage by Lebanese guerrillas.
Languages: English, Arabic, French.
Countries:
Belgium,
France,
Italy,
Lebanon
ProductionCompanies: 
Films A2
Movie: Out of Life
Top 10 Billed Cast
Hippolyte Girardot
Patrick Perrault
Majdi Machmouchi
Moustapha
Hassan Farhat
Sabrina Leurquin
Roger Assaf
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