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Operation Leopard
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Title: Operation Leopard

Release Date: 9 Jan 1980

Runtime: 1h 36m

Genre: War

Director: SNC, Bela Productions, France 3 Cinéma

Production Companies: SNC, Bela Productions, France 3 Cinéma

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.

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Average Vote: 5.4 (18 votes)

Cast

  • Pierre Delbart: Bruno Cremer
  • Annie: Mimsy Farmer
  • L'ambassadeur Berthier: Jacques Perrin
  • Adjudant-chef Federico: Giuliano Gemma
  • Damrémont: Laurent Malet
  • Colonel Grasser: Pierre Vaneck
  • Maurois: Jean-Claude Bouillon
  • Bia Kombo: Gérard Essomba
  • Le colonel Dubourg: Robert Etcheverry
  • Debruyn: Pierre Rousseau
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