The Assignment (1997 film)

The Assignment is a 1997 spy thriller film directed by Christian Duguay and starring Aidan Quinn in two roles, Donald Sutherland, and Ben Kingsley. The film, written by Dan Gordon and Sabi H. Shabtai, is set mostly in the late 1980s and deals with a CIA plan to use Quinns character to masquerade as the Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal.

In 1986 a man, looking like Carlos, is apprehended in an open air market and brutally interrogated by a Mossad commander named Amos Ben Kingsley. The man claims to actually be a US Naval officer named Annibal Ramirez whose identification was lost in the chaos of his arrest. Amos confirms his identity and lets him go, stunned that Ramirez looks exactly like Carlos. Back at home, Ramirez is visited by Shaw who tries to recruit him to impersonate the terrorist leader. Ramirez, however, is deeply embittered by his rough treatment at Amos hands, and threatens to sue.Shaw persists, confronting Ramirez with the human cost of Carlos terrorism. He finally convinces Ramirez by showing him a photograph of child who is a victim of one of Carlos bombings. ........

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