Operation Nam

1986 film

Erwin C. Dietrich
Vincenzo Mannino
Gianfranco Clerici
Fabrizio De Angelis^[1]

Produced by

Erwin C. Dietrich
Fabrizio De Angelis^[1]

Starring

Oliver Tobias
Christopher Connelly
Manfred Lehmann
John Steiner

Cinematography

Sergio Salvati
Sergio d'Offizi^[1]

Edited by

Alberto Moriani
Eugenio Alabiso^[1]

Music byFrancesco de Masi^[1]

Production
companies

Ascot Film GmbH
Fulvia International Film S.r.l.^[1]

Release date

31 July 1986 (1986-07-31) (West Germany)

Running time

89 minutes^[1]Countries

West Germany
Italy^[1]

Operation Nam (Italian: Cobra Mission, German: Die Rückkehr der Wildgänse) is a 1986 Italian-German war film written and directed by Fabrizio De Angelis (credited as Larry Ludman). It had a sequel, Cobra Mission 2, released in 1988.^[2]

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.

Cast

Oliver Tobias as Richard Wagner
Christopher Connelly as Roger Carson
Manfred Lehmann as Mark Adams
John Steiner as James Walcott
Ethan Wayne as Mike
Donald Pleasence as Father Lenoir
Gordon Mitchell as Col. Mortimer
Luciano Pigozzi as Phil Lawson's Father
Enzo G. Castellari as Major Morris
Thomas Moore

Release

Operation Nam was released in West Germany as Die Rückkehr der Wildgänse on July 31, 1986.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "Die Rückkehr der Wildgänse". Filmportal.de (in German). Retrieved February 13, 2019.
^ Fischer Film Almanach 1989 (in German). Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. 1989. p. 72. ISBN 3-596-24486-2.