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Ramírez Sánchez, son of Marxist lawyer José Altagracia Ramírez Navas and Elba María Sánchez, was born in Michelena, in the Venezuelan state of Táchira. [12] Despite his mother's pleas to give their firstborn child a Christian first name, José called him Ilich, after Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, while two younger siblings were named "Lenin" (born 1951) and "Vladimir" (born 1958). [13]
Carlos, also known as Carlos the Jackal, [2] is a 2010 French-German biographical film and television miniseries about the life of Venezuelan terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, nicknamed Carlos the Jackal, covering his first series of attacks in 1973 until his arrest in 1994.
The Jackal received a 24% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 33 reviews, with an average rating of 4.6/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "The Jackal is a relatively simple chase thriller incapable of adding thrills or excitement as the plot chugs along." [13] Metacritic gave the film a score of 36 out of 100 based on 20 reviews. [14]
The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 political thriller film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox and Michael Lonsdale.Based on the 1971 novel by Frederick Forsyth, the film is about a professional assassin known only as the "Jackal" who is hired to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle in the summer of 1963.
The Day of the Jackal wrapped up an explosive freshman season with a nail-bitingly tense finale this week — and it set the stage for Season 2, too. The finale picks up at full speed, with ...
The series follows the Jackal across Europe as he attempts to pull off his most high-profile hit yet — all while evading British intelligence — hence, the many disguises. Marcell Piti/Carnival ...
The Day of the Jackal is a British spy thriller television series, based on the Frederick Forsyth novel of the same name.It stars Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch.It is written and created by Ronan Bennett, produced by Christopher Hall and directed by Brian Kirk, Anthony Philipson, Paul Wilmshurst and Anu Menon.
But it also takes time to examine the very real human toll that all this action takes, with a surprising emotional depth that helps puts it right near the top of this year’s TV dramas ...