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ears ago, Italian director Giacomo Abbruzzese met a man in a club – a soldier who was strutting his stuff on the dancefloor. ‘I was very intrigued by this,’ he says. ‘He was embodying these two, a visually mesmerising odyssey in which Belarusian drifter Aleksei (Franz Rogowski) escapes into Poland and then France, where he joins the French Foreign Legion – on the promise of French citizenship if he lasts five years in the corps.