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POLAND · 1973
The Day of the Jackal
Fred Zinnemann
Synopsis
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.
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Because it's about a guy who takes pride in his work. And that to me is like something that's really fun to watch in a film. You watch, like, 'The Day of the Jackal,' and it's like literally watching this guy do his job in a kind of dispassionate, step-by-step way, and I find that fascinating.
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