Once Upon A Time There Was Legion

  • Hungary Volt egyszer egy légió
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Hungary / France, 1989, 104 min

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Five Hungarian men, who were trained in the Foreign Legion visit the scenes of their memories at the end of the eighties: France, Algeria and Indochina. - In the fall of 1948 a few young men in an Austrian refugee camp decide to join the French Legion. Despite their agreement Michel joins them later. He is put in the jankers for protecting his friend, Kicsi (Little). Later he fights in the Indochina jungle. There he loses Kicsi. Sick with fever, he is taken to a prison-camp, where he escapes on a stolen chopper. At the Hungarian border, however, the ex-soldiers are received by the secret police. (official distributor synopsis)

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