Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

Born: October 12, 1949
in Michelena, Táchira, Venezuela
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as Carlos the Jackal, is a Venezuelan terrorist currently serving a life sentence in France for the 1975 murder of an informant for the French government and two French counter-intelligence agents.

Movies for Ilich Ramírez Sánchez...

In the Darkroom
Title: In the Darkroom
Character: Carlos the Jackal
Released: January 13, 2013
Type: Movie
Documentary about the German Magdalena Kopp, wife and accomplice of political terrorist Carlos the Jackal. The film takes the audience on Magdalena Kopp’s and her daughter's journey beyond the shadows of his myth.
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Operation OPEC - Terroranschlag in Wien
Title: Operation OPEC - Terroranschlag in Wien
Released: September 5, 2007
Type: Movie
"Operation OPEC - Terror Attack in Vienna" - On December 21, 1975, six terrorists including the Germans Gabriele Tiedemann and Hans-Joachim Klein, led by Venezuelan top terrorist Carlos, attack the participants of the OPEC conference in Vienna and take eleven oil ministers and dozens of employees hostage. The action kills three people. The lavishly researched film reveals the background of the spectacular attack and establishes connections. The investigators, former hostages and some of the terrorists involved are heard.
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Terror's Advocate
Title: Terror's Advocate
Character: Self / Carlos the Jackal (voice)
Released: June 6, 2007
Type: Movie
A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla, exploring how Vergès assisted, from the 1960s onwards, anti-imperialist terrorist cells operating in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Participants interviewed include Algerian nationalists Yacef Saadi, Zohra Drif, Djamila Bouhired and Abderrahmane Benhamida, Khmer Rouge members Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, once far-left activists Hans-Joachim Klein and Magdalena Kopp, terrorist Carlos the Jackal, lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, neo-Nazi Ahmed Huber, Palestinian politician Bassam Abu Sharif, Lebanese politician Karim Pakradouni, political cartoonist Siné, former spy Claude Moniquet, novelist and ghostwriter Lionel Duroy, and investigative journalist Oliver Schröm.
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De terrorist Hans-Joachim Klein
Title: De terrorist Hans-Joachim Klein
Released: November 27, 2005
Type: Movie
On December 21, 1975, six terrorists from the Revolutionary Cells, led by Carlos 'The Jackal' forced their way into the conference room of the OPEC headquarters in Vienna and took seventy ministers hostage. A gun battle with the police ensued, and three people were killed. One terrorist was seriously wounded. The terrorists managed to escape to Algiers with a few hostages and the wounded man. There the hostages were released. The wounded terrorist was Hans-Joachim Klein. At the moment that Klein arrived in Algiers, he decided to quit terrorism.
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Title: The Age of Terror
Character: The Jackal
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: TV
Who are the men and women who bring bloody death to innocent civilians? Why do they do it? What are their methods? And how do they justify it?
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Klein, un cas allemand
Title: Klein, un cas allemand
Released: July 4, 1995
Type: Movie
"Klein, a German Case" - The inside story on international terrorism related by an ex-terrorist Hans Joachim Klein. Through interviews, archive footage and reconstitution that clarify certain events, Klein reveals the workings of international terrorism : the underground networks, his participation in the OPEC bombing in Vienna, training camps, the manipulating role played by certain governments and the cynicism of those underground shadows that terrorized the world for 20 years.