Escape to the Foreign Legion (1929)

Original title

Flucht in die Fremdenlegion

Directed by

Louis Ralph

Genre

silent film

Country

Germany

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

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How it feels

A man flees his past by joining the Foreign Legion in North Africa. He faces the reality of harsh military life and unfamiliar surroundings.

old-fashionedexoticseriousslow-burnvisually datedquietforeigndesperate

What happens

Escape to the Foreign Legion (German: Flucht in die Fremdenlegion) is a 1929 German silent film directed and co-written by Louis Ralph and starring Hans Stüwe, Alexander Murski, and Eva von Berne. Location shooting took place in Ceuta (Spain) in the time of Spanish Morocco. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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