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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jean-Claude Van Damme | ... | Alain Lefevre | |
| Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje | ... | Luther | |
| Steven Berkoff | ... | Sgt. Steinkampf | |
| Nicholas Farrell | ... | Mackintosh | |
| Jim Carter | ... | Lucien Galgani | |
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Ana Sofrenovic | ... | Katrina |
| Daniel Caltagirone | ... | Guido Rosetti | |
| Joseph Long | ... | Maxim | |
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Mario Kalli | ... | René Galgano |
| Joe Montana | ... | Julot | |
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Kim Rømer | ... | Capt. Rousselot |
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Anders Peter Bro | ... | Lt. Charlier |
| Paul Kynman | ... | Rolf Bruner | |
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Vincent Pickering | ... | Viktor |
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Takis Triggelis | ... | Cpl. Metz |
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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. The mobster discover his whereabouts and enrolls two hitmen to finish him off. With their fort under siege and enemies within, Lefevre finds that second chances are difficult to come by in the Legion. Written by Paul Hunter aka "Bob the Moo"
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3 December 1998 (Australia) See more »Also Known As:
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Luther: One big, empty country.
Mackintosh: Big it is, but I promise you, empty it is not. They're out there. Waiting, watching. Planning on when and how they're going to kill us. We're the intruders, Luther. It's their country. And every man, woman, and child will give up their lives before they give themselves up to us.
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Music by Marguerite Monnot
Lyrics by Raymond Asso
Performed by Ute Lemper
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Peter MacDonald replaced Sheldon Lettich as director shortly before production commenced. See more »Goofs
When they are attacked at the waterhole, Guido is suppose to fire at an incoming horseman. But when he takes aim, the rifle bolt is in the open position which makes it impossible to fire. Yet he manages to fire anyway, and in the next shot the bolt is in the locked position See more »Quotes
[Mackintosh and Luther are looking out across the desert.]Luther: One big, empty country.
Mackintosh: Big it is, but I promise you, empty it is not. They're out there. Waiting, watching. Planning on when and how they're going to kill us. We're the intruders, Luther. It's their country. And every man, woman, and child will give up their lives before they give themselves up to us.
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Mon LégionnaireMusic by Marguerite Monnot
Lyrics by Raymond Asso
Performed by Ute Lemper
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This is the least typical Van Damme film - and his absolute best. really, if you come to this film expecting a typical Van Damme film, please go see Double Impact or Hard Target again.
Based on a real incident during the 1925 Morocco campaign (and most of us didn't even know there was such a campaign), and highly suggestive of the many versions of Beau Geste that women have wept over in movie-houses for decades, this is a story about the French Foreign Legion. Viewers should be warned that the slogan of the Legion at this time was "March or die!" The only thing that kept these men from killing each other was that the Berbers were so much better at killing them.
The film has an epic structure to it. The cinematography doesn't quite match this, but it is rock-solid. The actors are all very able. Clichés do drift through the film, but the final battle makes up for most of these.
And, oh, yes, Van Damme can actually act. Quite well, when he doesn't let it get to his head.