Carlos (miniseries)

Carlos is a 2010 FrenchGerman television and cinema biographical film about the life of the 1970s Venezuelan revolutionary Carlos the Jackal Ilich Ramrez Snchez, covering his first series of attacks in 1973 until his arrest in 1994. It premiered as a threepart TV miniseries on French pay channel Canal, with the three parts airing onMay, May 26, and June 2, 2010. On the same day it premiered on Canal, the fullhour version was also shown out of competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

Ilich Ramrez Snchezwho adopts the code name of Carlos early in the filmis 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 worlds most wanted terrorists. The film begins in Paris in 1973, where the young Ramrez Snchez 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 OPECs headquarters in Vienna, and carry out other devastating acts of politically motivated violence.Ramrez Snchez, who has fought alongside the Palestinians in Jordan, carries out a series of attacks in London in 1973. He moves to Paris where the PFLP puts him in charge of its European branch under the command of a Lebanese militant, Michel Moukharbal, alias Andr. He coordinates several operations, in particular the hostage taking in the French Embassy in The Hague by militants of the Japanese Red Army. When Andr is arrested, French agents of the domestic intelligence service, the DST, want to know more about Ilich, who has by now adopted the nom de guerre Carlos. To escape arrest, Carlos shoots three policemen. He then joins the head of the PFLP, Wadie Haddad, in southern Yemen. Haddad entrusts him with a daring mission taking hostage the oil ministers of the OPEC countries at their forthcoming conference in Vienna. ........

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