Beirut: The Encounter

Beirut: The Encounter

1981
1h 37m
5.7

5.7/10

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Overview

Zeina is a Catholic student whose good friend Haidar, a Muslim, has always been particularly close. After a futile attempt to get together (he gets caught in traffic), they each decide to make an audio tape trying to explain, based on their own ideas, why there continues to be fighting in Lebanon now, in 1977, and why they are against it. Zeina is about to leave for the United States and Haidar is to meet her at the airport, where they will exchange their tapes. Alas, fate intervenes because when he arrives early at the airport, he is harassed by someone looking to prey on gullible refugees and he gets so angry that he grabs a taxi out of there, throwing his tape away as he does so. When Zeina arrives and realizes he is not there, she is broken-hearted.

Status: Released

Language: AR

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Production Information

Production Companies
Etablissement Arabe de Production Cinématographique (EAPC) Ciné Libre
Production Countries
Belgium Lebanon Tunisia
Spoken Languages
Arabic

Keywords

Quick Facts

Original Title بيروت اللقاء
Release Date January 2, 1981
Status Released
Language AR
IMDb ID tt0132762

Cast

Haithem el Amine
Haithem el Amine

Nadine Acoury
Nadine Acoury

Najoua Haydar
Najoua Haydar

Houcem Sabbah
Houcem Sabbah

Renée Dick
Renée Dick

Raafet Haydar
Raafet Haydar

Key Crew

Borhane Alaouié
Director
Ahmed Beydoun
Writer
Hassen Daldoul
Producer