A Lebanese ex-con tries to go straight, but Beirut's underworld has other plans.
Garo is an outlaw who, upon his release from prison, returns to violence against his will. Once again pursued by the police, he flees to Syria and only returns to Beirut in 1961, disguised as a Bedouin. He forms a drug-dealing gang.
Costume
Garo's Bedouin disguise—campy yet committed transformation sequence.
Production
Rare glimpse of mid-century Lebanese studio filmmaking and locations.
Director
Gary Garabedian
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the few surviving Lebanese crime noirs from the pre-civil war studio era, when Beirut was marketed as the 'Paris of the Middle East'—ironically, for export audiences who wanted exotic danger.
Director Gary Garabedian made primarily commercial genre films; Garo was reportedly shot in under three weeks with sets recycled from an unfinished Egyptian co-production.
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