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Pentathlon

Name: Pentathlon
Genre: Action, Thriller
Released: 1994-06-04
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 4.353

★ 4,4 /10 (51 Votes)

1994 EN 101 min

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.

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Release date

04/06/1994

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Play to win. If you lose... you die.

Genres

Action Thriller

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

101 min

Budget

$4,000,000

Dolph Lundgren

Eric Brogar

David Soul

Heinrich Müller

Renée Coleman

Julia Davis

Roger E. Mosley

John Creese

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Evan James Malmuth

Offerman

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David Drummond

Hundt

Daniel Riordan

Jürgen Reinhardt

Philip Bruns

Vic

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Gerald Hopkins

Christian

Bruce Malmuth

Erhardt

Erik Holland

Barry Lynch

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Andreas Renell

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Kevin White

Freddie

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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…

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