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DESERTER (AN ENGLISH LEGIONNAIRE)
DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, USA
 
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Completed - ENGLISH - Action/Adventure - 90 minutes

Year of production : 2002

Director(s) : Martin HUBERTY
Cast : Tom HARDY, Paul FOX

Synopsis

1960's North Africa. An idealistic young English gentleman Simon Murray (Paul Fox) is driven to join the French Foreign Legion after a failed romance. Simon’s romantic illusions are soon shattered when he encounters his fellow recruits, including Dupont (Tom Hardy.) They have all volunteered to escape a past far less innocent than Simon’s.
A sadistic training routine forges the recruits together. As fully-fledged Legionnaires they set out to do battle against the insurgents facing deadly firefights among the villages, hills and deserts of North Africa. But when French President De Gaulle grants Algerian independence, the Legion sides with the ‘Pied Noir’ French Nationalists against mother France. Loyalties are torn apart. Comrade is turned against comrade. Simon and Dupont must face each other across a moral divide, their conscience dictating their actions; blurring the distinction between hero and deserter.

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Country(ies) : UNITED KINGDOM

UNITED KIN KALEIDOSCOPE HO
USA OUT OF THE BOX
USA MARCO POLO PROD


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