Nikita (film)

Nikita, also called La Femme Nikita French pronunciationla fam nikita , The Woman Nikita, is a 1990 FrancoItalian action thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson.

Nikita Anne Parillaud is a teenage junkie who participates in the robbery of a pharmacy owned by a friends parents. The robbery goes awry, erupting into a gunfight with local police, during which her accomplices are killed. Suffering severe withdrawal symptoms, she murders a policeman. Nikita is arrested, tried, and convicted of murder and is sentenced to life in prison.In prison, her captors fake her death, making it appear that she has committed suicide via a tranquilizer overdose. She awakens in a nondescript room, where a welldressed but hardlooking man named Bob Tchky Karyo tells her that, although officially dead and buried, she is in the custody of a shadowy government agency known as the Centre possibly part of the DGSE. She is given the choice of becoming an assassin, or of actually occupying row 8, plot 30, her fake grave. After some resistance, she chooses the former and proves to be a talented killer. She is taught computer skills, martial arts, and firearms. One of her trainers, Amande Jeanne Moreau, transforms her from a degenerate drug addict to a femme fatale. Amande implies that she was also rescued and trained by the Centre. ........

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