Lionheart(Movie, 1990)

Name: Lionheart
Genre: Action
Released: 1990
Duration: T01:45:00
Rating: 3.3

FSK: 18+ years

| 1h 45min | Genre: Action

Rating: 3.3/5 (with 453 votes)

Lionheart is a 1990 American martial arts film directed by Sheldon Lettich, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Rennard, Harrison Page, Lisa Pelikan and Brian Thompson. It also features the acting debut of Ashley Johnson. Van Damme plays a French Foreign Legionnaire stationed in Africa, who must desert to the United States and enter the underground fighting circuit to raise money for his murdered brother's family. The film premiered in France on August 1, 1990, and opened in the U.S. on January 11, 1991. It received lackluster reviews, but marked Van Damme's breakthrough as a theatrical leading man in North America. It was released in the United Kingdom as A.W.O.L: Absent Without Leave, and in Oceania ... ()

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About Lionheart

Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the money needed to heal her husband and to maintain her child. To earn the money needed, Gaultier decides to take part in some very dangerous clandestine fights.

Trailer for Lionheart + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

English(Trailer, 2:07)

English (Trailer) | Trailer (Trailer) | Leon (trailer german) (Trailer, DE)

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: Los Angeles (California)

Made by: Universal Pictures, Imperial Filmproduktion

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES)

Translated into 28 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date DE: 06/07/1990

Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Ashley Johnson, Michel Qissi, Brian Thompson, Harrison Page, Deborah Rennard, Lisa Pelikan, Ash Adams, Abdel Qissi, Scott Spiegel, Lawrence Bender

Director: Sheldon Lettich

Producer: executive producer

Screenwriter: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sheldon Lettich

Film Editor: Mark Conte

Composer: John Scott, Jerry Goldsmith

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Cœur de Lion"

"鐵拳無敵"

"Leon Peleador sin Ley"

"Corazon de leon"

"A.W.O.L.: Absent Without Leave"

"Wrong Bet"

"Samovolka"

"A.W.O.L."

"A.W.O.L.: Absent Without Leave"

"Lionheart Extended Cut"

"Wrong Bet"

Keywords: street gang, foreign legion, warrior, drug dealer, fistfight, underground fighting, martial arts, sports, foreign legionaire, street fight, street life, action hero, upper class, class differences, revenge

Budget: 6,000,000 USD

Revenue: 24,271,196 USD (= 405%)

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