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The World's Most Wanted Man
Olivier Assayas Car/os, which premiered out of competition to great acclaim at this year's Cannes Film Festival, is an epic portrait of the famous terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal (u.k.a. I lich Ramírez Sánchez), who was born in Venezuela in 1949 and is currently behind bars in France, serving ;j life sentence for three murders. Producer Daniel Leconte, who initiated the production, says he was drawn to the subject because he believes that terrorism is the big topic "oí my generation." He observes, "Carlos was die Bin Laden of his time."
In order to increase their financing options, the filmmakers decided to create Carlas in two versions, a 2 Vs -hour cut tor theatrical release and a SVs-hour cut for television broadcast and home-video release. (The latter was screened at Cannes.) In the United States, the longer cut recently aired on the Sundance Channel and has been theatrically released by IFC Films ...See the full content of this document
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