Warriors of the French Foreign Legion
The French Foreign Legion has long been the stuff of adventure and romance.
The March or Die heroism of Beau Geste’s comrades against the Arabs in North Africa or being the foreign soldiers sent to do the dirtiest and hardest work for France. Joining recruits leave behind their pasts – ordinary or shady – and begin anew as legionnaires, the toughest of French soldiers.
This documentary takes cameras into the modern Legion and while weapons and enemies have changed, the outcome will still be the same. Some legionnaires will die during their five-year tenure.
For the Legion is still France’s first resort in nasty situations and, as the soldiers themselves say, they are sent because if they die “it’s only foreigners”.
More than 100 nationalities form its ranks, once they are accepted their only family is the Legion.
Discipline and training is brutal and from the interviews it seems that old hands will do almost anything under orders.
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