

Out of Life
1991, French. Directed by Maroun Bagdadi.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- French
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- Released
- 15 May 1991
- Original title
- Hors la vie
- Country
- Belgium, France, Italy, Lebanon
- Written by
- Maroun Bagdadi, Didier Decoin
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Out of Life runs 97 minutes (1h 37m).
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Out of Life isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 15 May 1991. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Out of Life?
Out of Life (1991) was directed by Maroun Bagdadi and stars Hippolyte Girardot, Rafik Ali Ahmad, Hussein Sbeity.