This interview with actor Édgar Ramírez was shot in Tenerife, Spain, in June 2011.
The following is a selected-scene commentary featuring CARLOS cinematographer Denis Lenoir.
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.
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...
