Legionnaire (1998)

R12/03/1998Action, War, Adventure, History1h 38m
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A fugitive from a killer. A remote outpost. A fight to the death.

Overview

Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion. As part of the legion he tangles with abusive lieutenant Steinkampf and bonds with legionnaires Luther, Mackintosh and Rosetti.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Jean-Claude Van Damme

    Alain Lefevre

  2. Cast 1

    Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

    Luther

  3. Cast 1

    Steven Berkoff

    Sgt. Steinkampf

  4. Cast 1

    Nicholas Farrell

    Mackintosh

  5. Cast 1

    Jim Carter

    Lucien Galgani

  6. Ana Sofrenović

    Katarina

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    Daniel Caltagirone

    Guido Rosetti

  8. Cast 1

    Joseph Long

    Maxim

  9. Mario Kalli

    Rene Galgano

**_Jean-Claude Van Damme adventure in the Moroccan desert_** In 1925, a boxer in Marseille (Van Damme) makes some big enemies and so joins the French Foreign Legion in which he’s assigned to Morocco during the Rif war to defend a desert outpost against Abd el Krim’s Berber guerillas. “Legionnaire” (1998) begins like “The Cotton Club” (1984) before settling into a plot reminiscent of “The Dirty Dozen” (1967) with the North African milieu of “March or Die” (1977) or “Khartoum” (1966), not to mention an ending similar to “The Alamo” (1960). Like “The Flight of the Phoenix” (1965) and “La...