An African-American man fleeing the systemic racism of the United States.
The driving thematic force of Legionnaire is fatalism—the idea that humans are powerless to do anything other than what they actually do, and that the past inevitably catches up. From the opening act in Marseille, Lefèvre is depicted as a man running out of time. His decision to join the French Foreign Legion is not born out of patriotism or a desire for adventure, but raw desperation. Legionnaire(1998)
An upper-class Englishman disgraced by gambling debts. An African-American man fleeing the systemic racism of