Legionnaire (1998)

Directed by

Peter MacDonald

Genre

drama film, action film, adventure film, war film, boxing film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

R

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 620 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In the 1920s, a boxer named Alain Lefèvre wins a fight he was paid to lose. He escapes the gangsters by joining the French Foreign Legion in North Africa.

grittytenseadventurousmelancholicaction-packedatmosphericbroodinghistorical

What happens

Legionnaire is a 1998 American drama war film directed by Peter MacDonald and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as Alain Lefèvre, a 1920s boxer who wins a fight after he was hired by gangsters to lose it and then flees to join the French Foreign Legion. The cast includes Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Daniel Caltagirone, Ana Sofrenović, Nicholas Farrell and Steven Berkoff. The film was filmed in Morocco at Tangier and Ouarzazate. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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