Out of Life

Out of Life

1991 · 97 min · ★ 5.9 · Drama, War

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.

Directed by Maroun Bagdadi · Written by Maroun Bagdadi

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