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1980s
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Made for TV
Certification15
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Edited down from a highly acclaimed TV mini-series 'Carlos' tells the story
of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the Venezuelan terrorist/revolutionary better known as Carlos the Jackal. Commencing with his joining the PFLP, through the 1975 raid on the OPEC meeting in Vienna, his time on the run until his eventual capture in 1994, the film depicts the man as a revolutionary, a terrorist, a mercenary, an arrogant charmer, a megalomaniac, as cold-blooded, but capable of extreme bad temper, and always with
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THE ALAN CLARK DIARIES
(2004)
Certification15
Our Rating
Charming, vain, controversial, irreverent, Alan Clark, played with compelling assurance by Hurt, was one of the more colourful politicians during the Thatcher and Major years. Adapted from his best-selling diaries, Clark lays bare the personal and political events of the time with unique wit and candour, from his first lowly ministerial appointment in 1983, through the glorious rises and the ignominious falls, scandals and affairs.
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