Movie
1980
The Dogs of War is a 1980 action-thriller war film directed by John Irvin and starring Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger and Colin Blakely. Based on Frederick Forsyth's 1974 novel, it follows a small mercenary unit of soldiers privately hired to depose the president of a fictional African country modeled on Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Conakry, Equatorial Guinea and Angola, so that a British tycoon can gain access to a…
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While it was part of the former Yugoslavia, my country, Croatia, used to be almost completely ignored by Western films in general. The words “Croatia” and “Croatians” were unheard, even in movies whose plots actually took place on Croatian locations. A rare exception was *The Dogs of War*, the 1980 adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's bestselling novel, yet that rare occasion only added insult to injury by mentioning C…More
