Adapted from a five-&-a-half-hour television mini-series, this three-hour biopic chronicles 20 years in the life of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, aka Carlos the Jackal. Edgar Ramirez stars in the title role as the ambitious, egotistical yet powerfully charismatic man who founded a worldwide terrorist organisation & raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before finally being captured by the French police.