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The Assignment (1997)
Directed by Christian Duguay
Thriller, Action, Crime · 1h 59m
Jack Shaw has experienced the terror first-hand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international killer-for-hire Carlos "The Jackal" Sanchez for over twenty years and barely survived Carlos' devastating bombing of a Parisian cafe. Now, he finally gets a break when he discovers Carlos' dead ringer: American naval officer and dedicated family man Annibal Ramirez.
Cast
Aidan Quinn
Annibal Ramirez / Carlos
Donald Sutherland
Jack Shaw / Henry Fields
Ben Kingsley
Amos
Claudia Ferri
Maura Ramirez
Céline Bonnier
Carla
Vlasta Vrana
KGB Head Officer
Liliana Komorowska
Agnieska
Von Flores
Koj
Gregory Hlady
KGB Aide
Gabriel Marian Oseciuc
KGB Agent
M
Mitchell David Rothpan
Joey Ramirez
Frédéric Desager
KGB Agent
Crew
- Director
- Christian Duguay
- Screenplay
- Dan Gordon, Sabi H. Shabtai
- Director of Photography
- David Franco, Christian Duguay
- Original Music Composer
- Normand Corbeil
- Editor
- Yves Langlois
- Producer
- Franco Battista
Details
- Release date
- 1997-09-28
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- Genres
- Thriller, Action, Crime
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Canada
- Production
- Triumph Films, Program de Credits of Impuc, Super Écran, Satch-Mo, Gouvernement du Québec, Allegro Films, The Movie Network