The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.
Acting
Ramírez's physical transformation across decades is genuinely unsettling.
Direction
Assayas treats terrorism as bureaucratic farce and tragedy simultaneously.
Production
Period accuracy so obsessive you'll smell the cigarette smoke.
Director
Olivier Assayas
Edgar Ramírez
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez ('Carlos')
Alexander Scheer
Johannes Weinrich
Nora Waldstätten
Magdalena Kopp
Talal Jurdi
Kamal al-Issawi ('Ali')
Christoph Bach
Hans-Joachim Klein ('Angie')
Julia Hummer
Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann ('Nada')
Ahmad Kaabour
Wadie Haddad
Fadi Abi Samra
Michel Moukharbel
Rodney El Haddad
Anis Naccache ('Khalid')
Rami Farah
'Joseph'
Aljoscha Stadelmann
Wilfred Böse ('Boni')
Katharina Schüttler
Brigitte Kuhlmann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Carlos sued to stop release, claiming defamation — the French court basically laughed him out. His actual capture involved a doctor luring him for 'weight loss surgery.'
Assayas deliberately cast German actors for German roles, breaking Hollywood convention, to emphasize Carlos's rootless, multinational existence. The linguistic chaos is the point.
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