Carlos
Carlos, directed by Olivier Assayas, is an epic, intensely detailed account of the life of the infamous international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez—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. Assayas portrays him not as a criminal mastermind but as a symbol of seismic political shifts around the world, while the magnetic Édgar Ramírez brilliantly embodies him as a swaggering global gangster. Criterion presents the complete, uncut, director-approved, five-and-a-half-hour version of Carlos.
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- High-definition digital transfer, supervised by cinematographers Denis Lenoir and Yorick Le Saux, with DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray
- New video interviews with director Olivier Assayas, actor Édgar Ramírez, and Lenoir
- Selected-scene commentary featuring Lenoir
- Carlos: Terrorist Without Borders, an hour-long documentary on the career of Carlos
- Archival interview with Carlos associate Hans-Joachim Klein, by Jean-Marcel Bougreau and Daniel Leconte
- 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
- PLUS: New 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 adviser, Stephen Smith
New cover by Sam Smith
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- High-definition digital transfer, supervised by cinematographers Denis Lenoir and Yorick Le Saux, with DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray
- New video interviews with director Olivier Assayas, actor Édgar Ramírez, and Lenoir
- Selected-scene commentary featuring Lenoir
- Carlos: Terrorist Without Borders, an hour-long documentary on the career of Carlos
- Archival interview with Carlos associate Hans-Joachim Klein, by Jean-Marcel Bougreau and Daniel Leconte
- 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
- PLUS: New 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 adviser, Stephen Smith
New cover by Sam Smith
Cast
- Édgar Ramírez
- Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (a.k.a. Carlos)
- Alexander Scheer
- Johannes Weinrich
- Nora Von Waldstatten
- Magdalena Kopp
- Ahmad Kaabour
- Wadie Haddad
- Christoph Bach
- Hans-Joachim Klein (a.k.a. Angie)
- Rodney El-Haddad
- Anis Naccache (a.k.a. Khalid)
- Julia Hummer
- Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann (a.k.a. Nada)
- Rami Farah
- Joseph
- Zeid Hamdan
- Youssef
- Talal el-Jurdi
- Kamal al-Issawi (a.k.a. Ali)
- Fadi Abi Samra
- Michel Moukharbal (a.k.a. André)
- Aljoscha Stadelmann
- Wilfried Böse (a.k.a. Boni)
- Katharina Schüttler
- Brigitte Kuhlmann
- Jule Bowe
- German militant
- Juana Acosta
- Carlos's girlfriend
- Martha Higareda
- Amparo
- Jean-Baptiste Malartre
- Ambassador in The Hague
- Olivier Cruveiller
- Captain Jean Herranz
- André Marcon
- General Philippe Rondot
- Nicolas Briançon
- Maître Jacques Vergès
- Jean-Baptiste Montagut
- Erik
- Razane Jammal
- Lana Jarrar
Credits
- Director
- Olivier Assayas
- Producer
- Daniel Leconte
- Writers
- Olivier Assayas
- Writers
- Dan Franck
- Based on an original idea by
- Daniel Leconte
- Historical adviser
- Stephen Smith
- Executive producer
- Raphael Cohen
- Coproducers
- Jens Meurer
- Coproducers
- Judy Tossell
- Cinematographers
- Yorick Le Saux
- Cinematographers
- Denis Lenoir
- Set design
- François-Renaud Labarthe
- Costumes
- Jurgen Doering
- Editor
- Luc Barnier
- Sound
- Nicolas Cantin
- Sound
- Nicolas Moreau
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Edition introduction to Carlos
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