Legionario (2025)

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Legionario is a 2025 British-French drama/thriller feature film directed by brothers David Cummings and Eric Cummings. Starring Sebastian Eslava, Valeria Caicedo, Julio Pachón, Camilo Amores, María del Rosario, and Alok Tewari, it was the first feature film ever to be shot within the premises of the French Foreign Legion.

Production

The idea of making a film about a Colombian in the French Foreign Legion came to brothers Eric and David Cummings while the former was on an internship in a hospital in Colombia and the latter training in the Legion as a reservist. The first versions of the script were inspired by the life of a legionnaire met by David Cummings who had escaped from the FARC and joined the French Foreign Legion.

The screenplay was written by French screenwriter Élodie Lossy, while screenwriter Jamie Nuttgens, who was lecturer in screenwriting at the University of Oxford while David Cummings was studying creative writing there, served as executive producer and contributed to the writing.

Legionario is a drama/thriller film directed and produced by David and Eric Cummings, and is a British-French co-production, through British production company Orpheum Films co-produced by the British company Orpheum Films and the Colombian company Lobo Productions. Many participants in the project also invested in it, and the brothers also handled casting and location scouting themselves to keep costs down. The total budget was around €250,000.

Award-winning Colombian cinematographer Mauricio Vidal was director of photography for the film.

Principal photography took place in July 2024 in Villavicencio, Restrepo, Puerto López, and in Acacias, Colombia, while three days with a reduced team were shot in the 13th Demi-Brigade of the French Foreign Legion in La Cavalerie, France, as well as in the village of Caunes-Minervois, France. Filming for the first part took place in the Larzac region of France.

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