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Legionnaire (film)

Legionnaire
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Directed by Peter MacDonald
Produced by Christian Halsey Solomon
Kamel Krifa
Sheldon Lettich
Peter MacDonald
Roberto Malerba
Richard G. Murphy
Edward R. Pressman
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Written by Sheldon Lettich
Rebecca Morrison
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Narrated by Jean-Claude Van Damme
Music by John Altman
Cinematography Douglas Milsome
Edited by Mike Murphy
Christopher Tellefsen
Production
company
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Release date
  • December 3, 1998 (1998-12-03)
Running time
99 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $20,000,000

Legionnaire is a 1998 American drama war film directed by Peter MacDonald and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a 1920s boxer who wins a fight after having been hired by gangsters to lose it, then flees to join the French Foreign Legion. The cast includes Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Steven Berkoff, Nicholas Farrell and Jim Carter. The film was filmed in Tangier and Ouarzazate, Morocco.

Alain Lefevre (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a French boxer in 1920s Marseille, France. Alain is forced by local crime boss Lucien Galgani (Jim Carter) to take a dive in a fight. Galgani's girlfriend Katrina (Ana Sofrenovic) is also Alain's ex-fiancée whom he left standing at the altar. But Katrina forgives Alain, and the two hatch a plan to run off to America together.

Alain does not take a dive in the fight, but just as the escape plan is about to succeed, Alain's friend is killed, and Katrina is captured by Galgani's men. But Alain has shot and killed Galgani's brother. Desperately needing a new escape plan, Alain signs up for the French Foreign Legion, and is shipped to North Africa to help defend Morocco against a native Berber rebellion of Rif warriors, led by Abd el-Krim.


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