The filmmaker who made a new biopic has been given a bad review from an unlikely critic, Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal.
The 5½-hour flick directed by Olivier Assayas titled “Carlos” will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and will ultimately be a mini-series on French television.
While visiting his lawyer’s office, the international terrorist, who remains in a French prison, told the AFP, “I've read the screenplay, there are deliberate falsifications of history, and lies.”
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, Carlos’s lawyer, has filed one lawsuit and is threatening additional legal actions to prevent the film’s general release.
The Jackal is apparently unhappy about footage of a 1975 hostage-taking by his gang at the OPEC conference in Vienna. The movie describes the attack as one that was carried out on behalf of the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
“They make Anis Naccache [Carlos’s second in command] say Saddam Hussein ordered that hostage-taking. I'm scandalised. It's shameful,” Carlos the Jackal said.
He insists that he was really working for Libyan dictator Moammar Kadafi.
Evidently the Jackal is also upset that in the movie his operations are portrayed by “showing hysterical men waving submachine guns and threatening people.”
The terrorist said that depiction is “completely ridiculous,”
“Things didn't happen like that. These were professionals, commandos of a very high standard,” Carlos insisted.
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