Legionnaire
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, Nicholas Farrell and Steven Berkoff. The film was filmed in Morocco at Tangier and Ouarzazate.
Plot
Alain Lefèvre is a French boxer in 1925 in Marseille, France. His brother Maxim has asked for him to throw a fight so that both can live on the money. Lucien Galgani, the mobster who forced him to do so, requests him to do it in the second round. Galgani's girlfriend, Katrina, is Alain's ex-fiancée. He had left her standing at the altar, but Katrina forgives Alain, and the two hatch a plan to run off to America together.
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| author | Jean-Claude Van Damme Sheldon Lettich |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Marseille |
| director | Peter MacDonald |
| editor | Christopher Tellefsen |
| events | boxing |
| genre | action drama |
| keywords | abd el-krim ambush army major berber british army capture dangerous mission end escape plan force foreign legion french foreign legion gambling debts italian italy kill march north africa outnumber resistance rif rif war riffian southern united states wait want |
| musicBy | John Altman |
| producer | Edward R. Pressman |
| productionCompany | Edward R. Pressman Film Enterprises Long Road Productions Quadra Entertainment |
| publisher | Lionsgate Home Entertainment |
| recordedAt | Marseille |
| theme | war |