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| Directed by | Fabrizio De Angelis |
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| Music by | Francesco de Masi |
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| Running time | 89 minutes |
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Operation Nam (Italian: Cobra Mission, German: Die Rückkehr der Wildgänse) is a 1986 Italian-German war film written and directed by Fabrizio De Angelis (credited as Larry Ludman). It had a sequel, Cobra Mission 2, released in 1988.
Plot
Ten years after the end of the Vietnam War, three American veterans who have never resigned themselves to defeat decided to organize a mission to return to Indochina. Their goal is to liberate the "missing in action", i.e. all those fellow soldiers taken prisoner by the Viet Cong and never let go.
Cast
- Oliver Tobias as Richard Wagner
- Christopher Connelly as Roger Carson
- Manfred Lehmann as Mark Adams
- John Steiner as James Walcott
- Ethan Wayne as Mike
- Donald Pleasence as Father Lenoir
- Gordon Mitchell as Col. Mortimer
- Luciano Pigozzi as Phil Lawson's Father
- Enzo G. Castellari as Major Morris
- Thomas Moore
Release
Operation Nam was released in West Germany as Die Rückkehr der Wildgänse on July 31, 1986.
References
- ^ "Die Rückkehr der Wildgänse". Filmportal.de (in German). Retrieved February 13, 2019.
- Fischer Film Almanach 1989 (in German). Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. 1989. p. 72. ISBN 3-596-24486-2.
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- 1986 films
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- Macaroni Combat films
- West German films
- English-language German films
- English-language Italian films
- Films directed by Fabrizio De Angelis
- Films scored by Francesco De Masi
- Vietnam War films
- Films shot in the Philippines
- 1980s Italian films
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