Carlos The Jackal: The Movie & The Trilogy - 3-Disc Set ( Carlos The Jackal ) ( Carlos The Jackal: Feature & Series )

Carlos The Jackal: The Movie & The Trilogy - 3-Disc Set (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Carlos The Jackal
Alternate Title: Carlos The Jackal: Feature & Series
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
505 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Olivier Assayas

Written By:
Dan Franck
Olivier Assayas

Actors:
Édgar Ramírez ..... Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, aka 'Carlos' (3 episodes, 2010)
Alexander Scheer ..... Johannes Weinrich (3 episodes, 2010)
Alejandro Arroyo ..... Dr. Valentín Hernández / ... (3 episodes, 2010)
Ahmad Kaabour ..... Wadie Haddad (2 episodes, 2010)
Talal El-Jordi ..... Kamal al-Issawi 'Ali' / ... (2 episodes, 2010)
Juana Acosta ..... Amie de Carlos (2 episodes, 2010)
Nora von Waldstätten ..... Magdalena Kopp (2 episodes, 2010)
Christoph Bach ..... Hans-Joachim Klein 'Angie' (2 episodes, 2010)
Rodney El Haddad ..... Anis Naccache 'Khalid' (2 episodes, 2010)
Julia Hummer ..... Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann 'Nada' (2 episodes, 2010)
Antoine Balabane ..... Général al-Khouly (2 episodes, 2010)
Rami Farah ..... 'Joseph' (2 episodes, 2010)
Aljoscha Stadelmann ..... Wilfred Böse 'Boni' / ... (2 episodes, 2010)
Zeid Hamdan ..... 'Youssef' (2 episodes, 2010)
Fadi Yanni Turk ..... Colonel Haïtham Saïd (2 episodes, 2010)
Katharina Schüttler ..... Brigitte Kuhlmann (2 episodes, 2010)
Badih Abou Chakra ..... Cheikh Yamani (2 episodes, 2010)
Basim Kahar ..... Riyadh el-Azzawi / ... (2 episodes, 2010)
Cem Sultan Ungan ..... Agent irakien (2 episodes, 2010)

Synopsis:

For two decades, Carlos was the most wanted terrorist on earth. In various disguises and under numerous pseudonyms he headed a worldwide organisation responsible for ruthless killings, hijackings and bombings. Professional revolutionary, playboy, dandy and assassin, he left a trail of destruction and broken hearts in his wake as he went about his lethal travels across the world. This is the story of Carlos the Jackal.

Carlos the Jackal was born Ilyis Ramirez Sanchez in Venezuela, joining the Communist party at a very young age, and attending a guerrilla training school in Havana by the time he hit 16. He then volunteered for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine at the age of 21, and it was there that he gained the terrorist 'nickname' Carlos. He went on to found his own terrorist group and become one of the most wanted fugitives around the world. It was much later that he acquired the name Carlos the Jackal, prompting many to incorrectly assume that the superior hitman film classic, The Day of the Jackal, was based on him. In fact, Fredrick Forsythe's original novel by the same name was written long before Carlos rose to fame, and it was actually due to a rumour that Carlos owned a copy of The Day of the Jackal that he acquired the title. Ironically, even that rumour would turn out to be false, but the name Carlos the Jackal stuck nonetheless. Of course, over the decades there have been many different literary and cinematic representations of the legendary assassin, mostly loose interpretations which largely glamorised the truth. Robert Ludlum's recently adapted Bourne Trilogy featured Carlos in a very prominent role across all three books, culminating in a showdown between the two assassins in The Bourne Ultimatum. It would be a further irony that, although the character of Carlos was dropped from the movie adaptations, the brutal assassin who Bourne would face off against in the movie of The Bourne Ultimatum was played by Edgar Ramirez, a Venezuelan actor who would then go on to play the real-life assassin in arguably the most faithful adaptation of the notorious criminal's life, 2010's Carlos (released in the UK as Carlos the Jackal).

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 09 April, 2012.

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