The Day of the Jackal
(1973)
★ 7.5 IMDb · 708 votes
Year: 1973
Runtime: 145 мин
Country: France, United Kingdom
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Эдвард Фокс, Теренс Александер, Мишель Оклер, Alan Badel, Tony Britton, Denis Carey, Сирил Кьюсак, Морис Денем, Майкл Лонсдейл, Вернон Добчефф
Plot
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
It is the early 60s in France. The remaining survivors of the aborted French Foreign Legion have made repeated attempts to kill DeGaulle. The result is that he is the most closely guarded man in the world. As a desperate act, they hire The Jackal, the code name for a hired killer who agrees to kill French President De Gaulle for half a million dollars. We watch his preparations which are so thorough we wonder how he could possibly fail even as we watch the French police attempt to pick up his trail. The situation is historically accurate. There were many such attempts and the film closely follows the plot of the book.