This documentary first aired in France in 1997, as part of the television series “Les brûlures de l’histoire.” It traces the life of Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, a.k.a. Carlos, from his involvement with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1970 to his imprisonment in Paris in 1994.
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French Television Interview of Hans-J...
In 1995, television producer Daniel Leconte located and interviewed German left-wing militant Hans-Joachim Klein, a.k.a. Angie, for French television. As evidenced in these excerpts from that conversation, Klein was in disguise during the interview. Leconte went on to produce Olivier Assayas’s fi...
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Maison de France
This 2004 film by Stefan Suchalla recounts the 1983 bombing of the Maison de France in West Berlin, an act against the French state orchestrated by Jogannes Weinrich on behalf of Carlos the Jackal. In the film, Suchalla looks at the accidental victims of terror. It also features interviews with C...
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Shooting the OPEC Sequence of CARLOS
This documentary shows how director Olivier Assayas and his crew re-created the historic events of December 21, 1975, when Carlos the Jackal and his team raided OPEC headquarters in Vienna during a meeting of the group’s ministers. It was shot on the set of CARLOS and directed by Arnaud Giocomini...
