Operation Leopard

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Raoul Coutard

Writers

André G. Brunelin

Language

French

Country

France

Release date

9 January 1980

Ensemble

Cast

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  Bruno Cremer

  Pierre Delbart

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  Mimsy Farmer

  Annie

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  Jacques Perrin

  L'ambassadeur Berthier

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  Giuliano Gemma

  Adjudant-chef Federico

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  Laurent Malet

  Damrémont

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  Pierre Vaneck

  Colonel Grasser

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  Jean-Claude Bouillon

  Maurois

• Gérard Essomba

  Bia Kombo

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  Robert Etcheverry

  Le colonel Dubourg

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  Pierre Rousseau

  Debruyn

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  Henri Marteau

  Chamfort

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  Laure Moutoussamy

  Elodie