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Director: |
Olivier Assayas
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Starring: |
Edgar Ramirez
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Genres: |
Drama, Espionage, Crime, Action-Adventure, Historical Drama
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Origin: |
France
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Certificate: |
MA
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Languages: |
Arabic,
English,
French,
German,
Hungarian,
Japanese,
Russian,
Spanish
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Subtitles: |
English
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Running Time: |
330 min
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Carlos is a 3-part French television drama mini-series, first broadcast on Canal+ in 2010. Produced by Film En Stock's Daniel Leconte in coproduction with Jens Meuer in association with Canal +, Studio Canal, ARTE, the Sundance Channel, it was created by Daniel Leconte and written by Dan Franck and Olivier Assayas, also directed by Assayas. It stars Édgar Ramírez as Carlos the Jackal, the infamous terrorist and murderer. After several bungled bombings, he achieves notoriety for a 1975 raid on OPEC headquarters in Vienna, resulting in the deaths of three people. For many years he was among the most wanted international fugitives.
The 5½ hour version of Carlos was screened out of Competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2010. The series aired on Canal+ in prime-time in late May 2010. Carlos won the 2010 Golden Globe award for the 'Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television'.
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