
Day of the Jackal
“The Day of the Jackal,” directed by Fred Zinnemann, is a tense political thriller that follows a professional assassin, known only as “The Jackal,” who is hired to kill French President Charles de Gaulle. As the authorities race against time to stop him, the film intricately weaves a cat-and-mouse game filled with suspense and meticulous planning.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Adrien Cayla-Legrand, Alan Badel, Andréa Ferréol, Anton Rodgers, Barrie Ingham, Bernard Archard, Cyril Cusack, David Swift, Delphine Seyrig, Denis Carey, Derek Jacobi, Donald Sinden, Edward Fox, Edward Hardwicke, Eric Porter, Féodor Atkine, Gerard Bühr, Jacques François, Jean Martin, Jean Sorel, Maurice Denham, Michael Lonsdale, Michel Auclair, Nicolas Vogel, Nicole Desailly, Olga Georges-Picot, Philippe Léotard, Raymond Gérôme, Ronald Pickup, Terence Alexander, Timothy West, Tony Britton, Van Doude, Vernon Dobtcheff
Country: France, United Kingdom
Company: Bluebush Productions, John Woolf Productions, Universal Productions France, Warwick Film Productions
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar, 1 win & 11 nominations total
Duration:
2h 23minRelease: 1973
Release Date: 1973-05-16
IMDb: 7.8
TMDB: 7.5
Rotten Tomatoes: 91%
Metacritic: 80
FilmAffinity: 7.5