Out of Life

1991 French film

Maroun Bagdadi
Didier Decoin
Elias Khoury

Produced by

Mario Gallo
Enzo Giulioli
Jacques Perrin

Starring

Hippolyte Girardot
Rafic Ali Ahmad

CinematographyPatrick BlossierEdited byLuc BarnierMusic byNicola Piovani

Release date

15 May 1991 (1991-05-15) (premiere at Cannes)

Running time

97 minutesCountryFranceLanguageFrench

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 IMDb
Hors la vie at AllMovie

Jacques Perrin

Films directed

Winged Migration (2001)
Oceans (2009)
Seasons (2015)

Films produced

Z (1969)
L'Etrangleur (1970)
Special Section (1975)
Black and White in Color (1976)
The Desert of the Tartars (1976)
The Roaring Forties (1982)
Out of Life (1991)
Guelwaar (1993)
The Lambs (1996)
Microcosmos (1996)
Himalaya (1999)
The Chorus (2004)
Paris 36 (2008)
Team Spirit (2016)
The Mercy (2017)
Mia and the White Lion (2018)
The Wolf and the Lion (2021)
The Last Men (2023)

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