Movie
1998
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…
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While certain characters can use their service in French Foreign Legion to gain high military and police ranks and later become national celebrities and mythical folk heroes, in most countries people tend to associate that force with the dregs of their respective societies. Times when Legion radiated romantic mystique have long gone, but this didn't prevent film-makers from trying to recapture image of Legion depict…More
