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Operation Leopard(1980)
Status: Released
Date: 1980-01-09
54%
19 Votes
Time: 1h 36m
Overview:
In May 1978, the mining town of Kolwezi in Katanga, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Belgian Congo) is under attack from a group of communist guerillas coming from nearby Angola. The Europeans who work for the Belgian mining company and the Blacks who live in the town are taken as hostages by the invaders, who start a blood bath, shooting Europeans as well as Africans. Many of the Europeans being French, the French decide to organize a counter-attack, and to send a Regiment of Paratroopers from the Foreign Legion. The movie follows the stories of Delbart, a former non-commissioned officer, who was about to go back to France with his African wife and his child, Damrémont, who was Delbart's replacement, Bia, a Zairian doctor, and Annie, an American married to a Belgian engineer as well as Non com Legion officer Federico and the French Ambassador and the Military Attaché.
Languages: French.
Countries:
France
ProductionCompanies: 
SNC
Bela Productions
Movie: Operation Leopard
Top 10 Billed Cast
Bruno Cremer
Pierre Delbart
Mimsy Farmer
Annie
Jacques Perrin
L'ambassadeur Berthier
Giuliano Gemma
Adjudant-chef Federico
Laurent Malet
Damrémont
Pierre Vaneck
Colonel Grasser
Jean-Claude Bouillon
Maurois
Robert Etcheverry
Le colonel Dubourg
Pierre Rousseau
Debruyn
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Overview
In May 1978, the mining town of Kolwezi in Katanga, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Belgian Congo) is under attack from a group of communist guerillas coming from nearby Angola. The Europeans who work for the Belgian mining company and the Blacks who live in the town are taken as hostages by the invaders, who start a blood bath, shooting Europeans as well as Africans. Many of the Europeans being French, the French decide to organize a counter-attack, and to send a Regiment of Paratroopers from the Foreign Legion. The movie follows the stories of Delbart, a former non-commissioned officer, who was about to go back to France with his African wife and his child, Damrémont, who was Delbart's replacement, Bia, a Zairian doctor, and Annie, an American married to a Belgian engineer as well as Non com Legion officer Federico and the French Ambassador and the Military Attaché.
Release Date
1980-01-09
Average
5.4
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