Legionnaire (film)

Legionnaire
Official DVD cover
Directed byPeter MacDonald
Screenplay bySheldon Lettich
Rebecca Morrison
Story bySheldon Lettich
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Produced byChristian Halsey Solomon
Kamel Krifa
Sheldon Lettich
Peter MacDonald
Roberto Malerba
Richard G. Murphy
Edward R. Pressman
Jean-Claude Van Damme
StarringJean-Claude Van Damme
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Daniel Caltagirone
Nicholas Farrell
Steven Berkoff
CinematographyDouglas Milsome
Edited byMike Murphy
Christopher Tellefsen
Music byJohn Altman
Production
companies
Edward R. Pressman Film Enterprises
Long Road Productions
Quadra Entertainment
Distributed byNew Films International
Sterling Home Entertainment
Release date
  • December 3, 1998 (1998-12-03)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$35 million[1]

Legionnaire is a 1998 American drama war film directed by Peter MacDonald and 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, Daniel Caltagirone, Nicholas Farrell and Steven Berkoff. The film was filmed in Tangier and Ouarzazate, Morocco.

  1. ^ "Van Damme will topline 'Legionnaire'". Variety. May 12, 1997.