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The Assignment - L'incarico
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film del 1997 diretto da Christian Duguay
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6.4Jack Shaw has experienced the terror first-hand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international killer-for-hire Carlos "The Jackal" Sanchez for over twenty years and barely survived Carlos' devastating bombing of a Parisian cafe. Now, he finally gets a break when he discovers Carlos' dead ringer: American naval officer and dedicated family man Annibal Ramirez.
Cast
- Aidan Quinn as Annibal Ramirez / Carlos
- Donald Sutherland as Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
- Ben Kingsley as Amos
- Claudia Ferri as Maura Ramirez
- Céline Bonnier as Carla
- Vlasta Vrana as KGB Head Officer
Themes
- hitman
- espionage
- spy
- embassy
- kgb
- mistaken identity
- training
- naval officer
- murder
- terrorism
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Ratings
IMDb
6.8/10
10,363 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
62%
- Year
- 1997
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Thriller
- Rated
- R
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- Canada
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- Cold War
- Director
- Christian Duguay
- Screenwriter
- Dan Gordon
- Cast member
- Daniel Pilon
- Cinematographer
- Christian Duguay
- Narrative location
- France
- Duration
- 115
- FilmAffinity ID
- 979378
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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Article · Italiano
The Assignment - L'incarico (The Assignment) è un film del 1997 diretto da Christian Duguay, con protagonisti Ben Kingsley, Aidan Quinn e Donald Sutherland, basato sulla vera storia degli agenti della CIA e del Mossad che contribuirono a metter fine alla carriera del terrorista venezuelano Ilich Ramírez Sánchez detto Carlos lo sciacallo il quale, a capo del gruppo terroristico Separat, della Rote Armee Fraktion, e del Fronte Popolare di Liberazione della Palestina, compì numerosi attentati e omicidi tra il 1973 e il 1994 contro le forze armate, le banche, e i centri commerciali dei paesi capitalisti, in nome dell'islam e del comunismo.
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