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Release Date: 1998 Cast: Ana Sofrenovic, Nicholas Farrell, Mario Kalli, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Joseph Long, Steven Berkoff, Daniel Caltagirone, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jim Carter
Categories: Movies, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Adventure, Foreign legion, Action, Boxing, Action/Adventure, Period piece, War film, Action Thrillers Legionnaire is a 1998 film 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 Ouarzazate, Morocco.
Alain Lefevre (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a French boxer in 1920's 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... MORE
Legionnaire is a 1998 film 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 Ouarzazate, Morocco.
Alain Lefevre (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a French boxer in 1920's 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 gets 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.
Along the way, Alain meets some new friends, including Luther, an African American who LESS
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