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Pentathlon (1994)

Pentathlon poster
Directed by
Bruce Malmuth
Genre
action film, thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 41m
Rated
16
Rating
4.4 of 10 from 51 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An East German Olympic pentathlete escapes his abusive coach and tries to start a new life in the United States. The coach hunts him down, forcing the athlete to use his skills to survive.

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What happens

Pentathlon is a 1994 American action thriller film directed by Bruce Malmuth, who also wrote the screenplay with Gary DeVore and William Stadiem. The film stars Dolph Lundgren as an East German Olympic gold medalist pentathlete on the run from a lethal coach (David Soul). This was the final feature film of director Bruce Malmuth before his death on June 29, 2005. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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