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La Légion Saute sur Kolwezi (1980)

Adventure | 96 minutes
2,58 13 votes

Genre: Adventure / War

Duration: 96 minuten

Alternative titles: Operation Leopard / Military Coup in Kolwezi / Het Vreemdelingenlegioen Bespringt Kolwezi

Country: France

Directed by: Raoul Coutard

Stars: Bruno Cremer, Mimsy Farmer and Giuliano Gemma

IMDb score: 5,6 (458)

Releasedate: 9 January 1980

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La Légion Saute sur Kolwezi plot

Europeans in Zaire are being held hostage by rebels from Zambia and Angola. Liberation actions are directed from Kinshasa and Paris. Will they manage to prevent the hostages from being executed in time?

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Pierre Delbart

L'ambassadeur Berthier

Adjudant-chef Federico

Colonel Grasser

Le colonel Dubourg

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Yesterday afternoon I started watching this completely unknown war film on Netflix, something I mainly started because it was on there, and in the hope of finding an unknown gem. But after I had seen the average scores and was halfway through the film it became clear that this was not the case.

Clearly the starting point is Zaire in a region with many, many important and sought-after raw materials with a kind of civil war-like coup with Europeans taken hostage as a result. But it must be said that from the beginning it does not work with the characters in the form of Pierre and Damremont who are simply not interesting, besides what do you expect in such a godforsaken place where the average temperature is about thirty degrees. I don't want to think about it! Then it also takes a while before something finally happens where with the skirmishes and executions a The Killing Fields-like image is created. But of course this film cannot possibly measure up to that.

Then it is still waiting for the big intervention that takes a long time with several delays and postponements which is typical in such situations. Funny by the way a shot of a Hercules with clearly European probably Belgian fields and structures underneath and not Africa. The intervention of the paratroopers is still somewhat a plaster on the wound with the necessary action, yet it all comes much too late and it is much too little to save an uninteresting film with dull characters. Therefore not sufficient as far as I am concerned.

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