Out of Life

Out of Life

Directed by	Maroun Bagdadi
Written by	Maroun Bagdadi Didier Decoin Elias Khoury
Starring	Hippolyte Girardot Rafic Ali Ahmad
Music by	Nicola Piovani
Release dates	15 May 1991 (premiere at Cannes)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Out of Life (French: Hors la vie) is a 1991 film directed by Lebanese director Maroun Bagdadi. The film tells the story of a French photographer (played by Hippolyte Girardot), who is kidnapped in Beirut, Lebanon, and attempts to maintain his personal dignity in the face of torture and brainwashing. The story was inspired by the events surrounding the kidnapping of Roger Auque during the Lebanon hostage crisis. The film was produced by the French companies Galatée Films and Films A2.

Cast

Hippolyte Girardot - Patrick Perrault
Rafic Ali Ahmad - Walid 'Chief'
Hussein Sbeity - Omar
Habib Hammoud - Ali 'Philippe'
Majdi Machmouchi - Moustapha
Hassan Farhat - Ahmed 'Frankenstein'
Hassan Zbib - Fadi
Nabila Zeitouni - Najat
Hamza Nasrallah - 'De Niro'
Sami Hawat - Hassan
Sabrina Leurquin - Isabelle
Roger Assaf - Farid
Nidal Al-Askhar - Khaled's Mother (as Nidal Ashkar)
Fadi Abou Khalil - (as Fady Abou Khalil)

Awards

The film won the Jury Prize at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

References

↑ "Festival de Cannes: Out of Life". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-08-09.

External links

Hors la vie at the Internet Movie Database
Hors la vie at AllMovie

Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize

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