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Carlos is a french film of genre Drama directed by Olivier Assayas released in USA on 11 october 2010 with Édgar Ramírez
Carlos (2010)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 11 october 2010
Length 5h30
Directed by Olivier Assayas
OriginFrance
Themes Films about terrorism
Rating75%
Carlos is a French-German television and cinema biographical film from 2010, about the life of the 1970s Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal (Ilich Ramírez Sánchez), from his first series of attacks in 1973 until his arrest in 1994. It premiered as a three-part TV mini-series on French pay channel Canal+, with the three parts airing on 19 May, May 26 and June 2, 2010. On the same day it premiered on Canal+, the full 5½ hour version was also shown out of competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
Produced by Daniel Leconte of French production company "Film En Stock" and Jens Meuer of German production company "Egoli Tossell Film", in association with "Canal+" and French Arte, it was directed by Olivier Assayas from a screenplay by Leconte, Assayas and Dan Franck, and stars Édgar Ramírez as Carlos. The film exists both as a three-part mini-series and a feature film of various lengths between 338 and 319 minutes, but also in several abridged versions, from 187 minutes (German cinema version) down to 166 minutes (US video on demand version).
Classified as a theatrical film and as a TV film/TV mini-series, Carlos has been awarded both theatrical awards and TV awards; among them the 2010 Golden Globe award for the 'Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television', the 2010 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director, the National Society of Film Critics 2010 award for Best Director, the New York Film Critics Circle 2010 award for Best Foreign Language Film, the 2010 European Film Award for Best Editor, the 2010 Critics Award for Best Film at the São Paulo International Film Festival, and Édgar Ramírez won the 2010 César Award for Most Promising Actor.
^ The Independent 24 October 2010: Carlos, Olivier Assayas, 338 mins (full version), 165 mins (abridged) (15) Linked 2012-10-19
^ French Wikipedia: Carlos (film, 2010) Linked 2012-10-19
^ IMDb: "Carlos the Jackal" release dates Linked 2012-10-19
^ Allocine: Carlos (in French) Linked 2012-10-19
^ Zeitchik, Steven (May 13, 2010). "Cannes 2010: The day of the Jackal. Literally.". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-05-14.
^ IMDb: Carlos, runtime Linked 2012-10-19
Synopsis
Refers to miniseries version. Ilich Ramírez Sánchez—who adopts the code name of "Carlos" early in the film—is a grim and elusive Venezuelan Marxist terrorist whose life is tracked as he executes dozens of assassination plots, abductions and bombings across Europe and the Middle East in the cause of Palestinian liberation. For two decades, he is one of the world's most wanted terrorists. The film begins in Paris in 1973 where the young Ramírez Sánchez is endeavoring to prove himself as a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) fighter and ends with his capture in Sudan in 1994. In between, Carlos and his fellow terrorists wreak havoc on the Left Bank in Paris, storm OPEC headquarters in Vienna, and carry out other devastating acts of politically motivated violence.Actors
Édgar Ramírez
(Ilich Ramírez Sánchez ('Carlos'))
Alexander Beyer
(Lieutenant Wilhelm Borostowski)
Ahmad Kaabour
(Wadie Haddad)
Anna Thalbach
(Inge Viett)
Martha Higareda
(Amparo)
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