Given who the producer was I.e. a real Legionnaire, I expected more accuracy. Legionnaires only wear the winged dagger brevet after joining the Second Para Regiment or 2eme REP as it's known nowadays.
His own book made no mention of a lot of what was in the movie which is probably why they should say "loosely" based on a true story instead of based on a true story.
Someone else made mention of the brutality of the NCOs being inaccurate. Actually that's not true. In the epoch the level portrayed in the movie the brutality actually existed (it calmed down a lot later on in the eighties whene
His own book made no mention of a lot of what was in the movie which is probably why they should say "loosely" based on a true story instead of based on a true story.
Someone else made mention of the brutality of the NCOs being inaccurate. Actually that's not true. In the epoch the level portrayed in the movie the brutality actually existed (it calmed down a lot later on in the eighties whene