Welcome to Lebanon

Apr 14, 2016

1h 36m

★ 0.0

Overview

After 30 years in the United States, the businessman Zuhair Chmila decides to take his wife Yvonne and his daughter Anna Maria Bella to Lebanon in order to let his daughter meet her home country, and the taxi driver "Farouk" was chosen to be the tourist in Lebanon. But the journey turns into an unexpected adventure where they clash with various areas of the Lebanese cultures, especially when the business competitor of Zuhair in America Sam Rizk decides to cost a man of the Lebanese mafia Alsaaour to get rid of Zuhair with the help of "the Russian penguin" the most famous cruel men in the world, it combines in a beautiful comic scene.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Falcon Films

Welcome to Lebanon Trailers

Cast

Farouk

Wissam Sabbagh

Anna Maria Bella

Shereen Abu Al-Ezz

Ziad Bourji

Saour

Sultan Deeb

Ivonne

Mai Sayegh

Zahir

Pierre Jamjian

Sam Rizk

Ramy Ayash

Khafif

Tariq Tamim

Zahra

Vivianne Antonios

Raed

Hassan Al-Masry

Aeroport Guy

Abbas Jafar

Turkish Chemist

Abdo Chahine

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