Legionnaire (1998)
1998 film by Peter MacDonald
- Released
- 1998
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Boxing film
- Director
- Peter MacDonald
- Screenplay
- Sheldon Lettich, Jean-Claude Van Damme
- Producer
- Peter MacDonald, Jean-Claude Van Damme
- Music
- John Altman
- Cinematography
- Douglas Milsome
- Starring
- Jean-Claude Van Damme, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Steven Berkoff, David Hayman, Jim Carter, Joseph Long, Nicholas Farrell, Daniel Caltagirone
- Running time
- 98 minutes
- Production company
- 20th Century Studios
- Distributor
- InterCom, Netflix
- Budget
- $20 million
- Set in
- Marseille, Morocco
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, Ana Sofrenović, Nicholas Farrell and Steven Berkoff. The film was filmed in Morocco at Tangier and Ouarzazate.
Cast
- Jean-Claude Van Damme
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
- Steven Berkoff
- David Hayman
- Jim Carter
- Joseph Long
- Nicholas Farrell
- Daniel Caltagirone
- Dida Diafat
- Ana Sofrenović
- Kamel Krifa
External links
Facts from Wikidata Q1195192 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.