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Legionnaire

1998 · Film · United States · Directed by Peter MacDonald

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Egyptian-style film sets behind the walls of Atlas Studios in Ouarzazate
Filmed here: Ouarzazate · Photo: Yair Haklai, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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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.

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Sources, checked 2026-11-15
  1. Wikipedia: Category:Films shot in Morocco
  2. Wikipedia: Category:Films shot in Ouarzazate
  3. French Wikipedia, filming-location category
  4. French Wikipedia, filming-location category
  5. Wikidata, filming location (P915)

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