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04/06/1994 Action, Thriller 1h 41m
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Play to win. If you lose... you die.

Overview

When East German Eric Brogar wins a gold medal in the pentathlon, he escapes to freedom in the west with the help of a beautiful American athlete. But his demanding coach, Heinrich Mueller vows revenge and Eric's best friend and his father pay the ultimate price for his freedom when they are killed by the Secret Police. In Los Angeles, Eric starts to train for the gold again. But when Mueller comes to America, Eric must win the most deadly game of all… the fight for his life.

  1. Bruce Malmuth

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Dolph Lundgren

    Eric Brogar

  2. David Soul

    Heinrich Müller

  3. Renée Coleman

    Julia Davis

  4. Roger E. Mosley

    John Creese

  5. Evan James Malmuth

    Offerman

  6. David Drummond

    Hundt

  7. Daniel Riordan

    Jürgen Reinhardt

  8. Philip Bruns

    Vic

  9. Gerald Hopkins

    Christian

  10. View more

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Reviews

A review by iluvdvds
Written by iluvdvds on 2012-07-20
A fun and very entertaining sports / action film that's truly
underrated! Dolph Lundgren - star of a whole bunch of epic actioners
from THE EXPENDABLES to RED SCORPION - is on fine performance as this
Pentathlon player. Is there nothing this man can't do?! What we have
here is a slightly different Lundgren vehicle - it's less about
shooting up baddies and more about competing...with Nazis, naturally.
Instead what we get is Dolph film in which his character is not only a
powerful and strong bad-ass, but sensitive and very funny at time.
PENTATHLON is a mighty fine sports film which is p...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$4,000,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

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