Tonight on TV: a real ex-commando in the casting of this French war film

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In 2011, writer and director Stéphane Rybojad directed his first fiction feature film: Special forces. This war film centers on a six-man commando unit COS (Special Operations Command) sent to a tribal area of ​​Afghanistan for a dangerous extraction mission: to free a French journalist and her Afghan companion from the hands of the Taliban.

Stéphane Rybojad knows his stuff. In fact he did dozens of reports on the French armed forces for French television and foreign channels. And for your first fiction feature film, you have assembled a formidable cast. Embodying these Special Forces “operators” are, among others, Djimon Hounsou, Benoît Magimel, Raphaël Personnaz and Denis Ménochet who wear the camouflage suit. The journalist Elsa is played by Diane Kruger and Mehdi Nebbou plays her partner Amin.

A former Green Beret in the casting

Very realistic in his approach to the subject, Special forces it was developed with the participation of the French army, which advised and trained the actors to try to make their actions as authentic as possible. Better yet, we find in the casting a real former member of the National Navy commandos, a former Green Beret known as “Mario“, and his real name Alain Alivon. In Special forcesplay like this your role“Marius”, one of the members of the commando sent to save Elsa and Amin.

Before joining the army at the age of 19 in 1984, Alain Alivon lived a difficult childhood in Marseille, familiar with the crime of the northern neighborhoods of his hometown. After being in police custody, a police officer advised him to join the army if he wanted to get out. For Alain Alivon it is a revelation. At the age of 20 he volunteered for marine commando training. He ranked first in his class and thus obtained the prestigious “green cap“.

After 22 years of active service, mainly in Lebanon, Djibouti and Ivory Coast, he left the army in 2006. Having become, among other things, a technical consultant for cinema, he then appeared in front of the camera for Special forces, in the role of one of the six commandos. For the record, he’s also in the casting Until the end in 2017, where he reunited with Denis Ménochet, his partner Special forces.

Source: Cine Serie

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