Legionnaire | |
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Directed by | Peter MacDonald |
Screenplay by | Sheldon Lettich Rebecca Morrison |
Story by | Sheldon Lettich Jean-Claude Van Damme |
Produced by | Christian Halsey Solomon Kamel Krifa Sheldon Lettich Peter MacDonald Roberto Malerba Richard G. Murphy Edward R. Pressman Jean-Claude Van Damme |
Starring | Jean-Claude Van Damme Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Daniel Caltagirone Nicholas Farrell Steven Berkoff |
Cinematography | Douglas Milsome |
Edited by | Mike Murphy Christopher Tellefsen |
Music by | John Altman |
Production companies | Edward R. Pressman Film Enterprises Long Road Productions Quadra Entertainment |
Distributed by | New Films International Sterling Home Entertainment |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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.