Jack 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.
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Classical in form, grave, unpretentious and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Aidan QuinnAnnibal Ramirez / Carlos
- Donald SutherlandJack Shaw / Henry Fields
- Ben KingsleyAmos
- Claudia FerriMaura Ramirez
- Céline BonnierCarla
- Vlasta VranaKGB Head Officer
- Liliana KomorowskaAgnieska
- Von FloresKoj
- Gregory HladyKGB Aide
- Gabriel Marian OseciucKGB Agent
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- Christian DuguayDirector
- Dan GordonScreenplay
- Sabi H. ShabtaiScreenplay
- Christian DuguayDirector of Photography
- David FrancoDirector of Photography
- Normand CorbeilOriginal Music Composer
- Yves LangloisEditor
- Franco BattistaProducer
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