Carlos
Limited Series
The story of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the 1975 OPEC meeting.
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3 Episodes
- Première partie
E1Première partieIlich Ramírez Sánchez, a Venezuelan-born militant who fought with the Palestinians in Jordan, commits a series of bombings in London. He then moves to Paris, where the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) has assigned responsibility and command of its European branch to Michel Moukharbal, "Andre", a militant Lebanese. He coordinates several operations by activists from the Japanese Red Army, in particular the taking of hostages at the embassy of France in The Hague. When Andrew was arrested, the French agents of the DST begin to address Ilich, who adopts the nom de guerre Carlos. To escape arrest, Carlos kills three policemen. Then he then joins the South Yemen leader of the PFLP, Wadie Haddad, who gives him a mission of rare audacity... - Episode 2
E2Episode 2'Carlos' leads one of the most spectacular terrorist attacks of the 1970s. The terrorists attacked OPEC's headquarters in Vienna and took several hostages. The ministers were released at an airport in Algeria for a large sum of money, but that was not the intention. After this incident, 'Carlos' became a hitman who offered his services to the country that paid the highest price. - Episode 3
E3Episode 3Towards the end of the seventies, 'Carlos' and his partners establish a base in Budapest. Here, behind the Iron Curtain, a network of contacts is established from Romania, Libya and Syria, among others. 'Carlos' lives as a European terrorist godfather and deals in arms sales. But times change, the Berlin Wall falls, and Carlos flees to Sudan. He is eventually extradited to France where he is now imprisoned.
