Carlos /

An epic, intensely detailed account of the life of the infamous international terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez - also known as Carlos the Jackal. One of the twentieth century's most wanted fugitives, Carlos was committed to violent left-wing activism throughout the seventies and eighties, orches...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Criterion Collection (Firm), Sundance Selects (Firm), Doc en Stock (Firm), Egoli Tossell Film AG
Other Authors:	Ramírez, Édgar, 1977- (Actor), Abi Samra, Fadi (Actor), Kaabour, Ahmad (Actor), Bach, Christoph, 1975- (Actor), Von Waldstätten, Nora (Actor), Al Haddad, Rodney (Actor), Hummer, Julia (Actor), Scheer, Alexander, 1976- (Actor), El-Jurdi, Talal (Actor), Leconte, Daniel (Producer), Assayas, Olivier (Screenwriter, Director), Franck, Dan (Screenwriter)
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	French English Arabic German Hungarian Japanese Russian Spanish
Language Notes:	French with dialogue in English Arabic, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish with optional English subtitles. Booklet in English.
Published:	[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2011]
Edition:	DVD special ed. ; widescreen.
Series:	Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 582.
Subjects:	Carlos, > the Jackal > Drama. Fugitives from justice > Drama. Left-wing extremists > Drama. Biographical television programs. Television crime shows. Action and adventure television programs. Fiction television programs. Television mini-series. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

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Summary:	An epic, intensely detailed account of the life of the infamous international terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez - also known as Carlos the Jackal. One of the twentieth century's most wanted fugitives, Carlos was committed to violent left-wing activism throughout the seventies and eighties, orchestrating bombings, kidnappings, and hijackings in Europe and the Middle East.
Item Description:	Based on an original idea by Daniel Leconte. Container indicates subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, but item is only closed captioned. Accompanying booklet contains "essays by critics Colin MacCabe and Greil Marcus, as well as a timeline of Carlos's life and biographies of selected figures portrayed in the film, written by Carlos's historical advisor, Stephen Smith." Special features: new video interviews with director Olivier Assayas, actor Édgar Ramírez, and Lenoir; selected-scene commentary featurig Lenoir; Carlos: terrorist without borders, and hour-long documentary; archival interview with Carlos associate Hans-Joachim Klein; Maison de France, a feature-length documentary on a Carlos bombing not included in the film; twenty-minute making-of documentary on the film's OPEC raid scene; original theatrical trailer;. Videorecording.
Physical Description:	4 videodiscs (339 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages ; 19 cm.)
Format:	DVD, NTSC region 1, widescreen (16:9) presentation ; Dolby Digital surround 5.1.
Audience:	Not rated.
Production Credits:	Cinematography, Yorick Le Saux, Denis Lenoir ; editing, Luc Barnier.
ISBN:	9781604654844 1604654848