Operation Nam
DirectorFabrizio De Angelis
Writer
Producer
  • Erwin C. Dietrich
  • Fabrizio De Angelis[1]
Starring
Cinematography
Editing
MusicFrancesco de Masi[1]
Production companies
  • Fulvia International Film[1]
  • Ascot Film
Released31 July 1986 (West Germany); 14 August 1986 (Italy)
Runtime89 minutes[1]
Country

Operation Nam (Italian: Cobra Mission) is a 1986 Euro War film co-written, produced, and directed by Fabrizio De Angelis (credited as 'Larry Ludman'). It stars Oliver Tobias, Christopher Connelly, Manfred Lehmann, John Steiner, Ethan Wayne, Gordon Mitchell and Donald Pleasence.

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.

Production

The film was an international co-production between Italy's Fulvia International Film and West Germany's Ascot Film. Shooting took place on-location in the Philippines and Scottsdale, Arizona, and at De Paolis Studios in Rome.

Release

Operation Nam was released in West Germany as Die Rückkehr der Wildgänse (lit. "The Return of the Wild Geese") on July 31, 1986.[1] It was later released in Italy on August 14, 1986 in Milan, Florence, and Naples as Cobra Mission.[2]

Sequel

The film had a sequel, Cobra Mission 2, released in 1988.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Die Rückkehr der Wildgänse" (in German). Filmportal.de. Retrieved February 13, 2019.
  2. ^ "Programmazioni Cinematografichie nella stagione 1986-87" [Film Programme for the 1986–87 Season] (in Italian). Giornale dello Spettacolo. Vol. XLIII, no. 28. August 28, 1987. p. V.
  3. ^ Fischer Film Almanach 1989 (in German). Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. 1989. p. 72. ISBN 3-596-24486-2.