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Red Scorpion is a american film of genre War directed by Joseph Zito released in USA on 5 january 1989 with Dolph Lundgren
Red Scorpion (1988)
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Add to a movie listRed Scorpion is a 1988 film directed by Joseph Zito starring Dolph Lundgren.
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The plot centers on Lundgren's character Nikolai Petrovitch Radchenko, a Soviet Spetsnaz operative who is sent to an African country where Soviet, Czechoslovakian and Cuban forces are helping the government fight an anti-communist rebel movement. He is tasked with the mission to assassinate the rebel leader. In order to infiltrate the rebel movement and get within striking distance of his target, he stirs up trouble in the local bar and gets arrested for disorderly conduct. He is put in the same cell as a captured resistance commander and gains his trust in facilitating the escape. Upon finally reaching the rebel encampment he is met with distrust by the rebels. During the night he attempts to assassinate his target but does not succeed when the distrustful rebels anticipate his actions.Actors
Dolph Lundgren
(Lt. Nikolai Rachenko)
M. Emmet Walsh
(Dewey Ferguson)
Al White
(Kallunda Kintash)
T.P. McKenna
(General Vortek)
Carmen Argenziano
(Colonel Zayas)
Brion James
(Krasnov)
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