The Assignment
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1997-09-28
Runtime: 119 mins
Director: Christian Duguay
Spoken language: English
Genres: Thriller, Action, Crime
Original title: The Assignment
Production Companies: Triumph Films, Program de Credits of Impuc, Super Écran, Satch-Mo, Gouvernement du Québec, Allegro Films, The Movie Network
Production Countries: Canada
Cast
Aidan Quinn
Donald Sutherland
Ben Kingsley
Claudia Ferri
Céline Bonnier
Vlasta Vrana
Liliana Komorowska
Von Flores
Gregory Hlady
Gabriel Marian Oseciuc
Mitchell David Rothpan
Frédéric Desager
Kliment Denchev
Yonathan Gordon
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