25 Oct 2004
The Edukators
Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
Out of Life
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.
Top Billed Cast
Hippolyte Girardot Patrick Perrault
Rafic Ali Ahmad Walid 'Chief'
Hussein Sbeity Omar
Majdi Machmouchi Moustapha
Habib Hammoud Ali 'Philippe'
Hassan Farhat Hamza Nasrallah Sami Hawat 
Sabrina Leurquin 
Roger Assaf 
Nidal Al-Askhar Fadi Abou Khalil Ninar Esber
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