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The Day of the Jackal
Why this pick
A meticulously procedural European manhunt with the same patient accumulation of clues, political unease, and cool, documentary-like suspense.
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MOVIE1974 2h 10m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
On 22 November 1963, the day of the John F. Kennedy assassination in Dallas, Peter Miller, a young freelancer in Hamburg, West Germany, pulls over to the curb to listen to a radio report of the event. As a result, he happens to be stopped at a traffic signal as an ambulance passes by on a highway.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Mary Tamm
Sigi
Peter Jeffrey
David Porath
Kurt Meisel
Alfred Oster
Garfield Morgan
Israeli General
Shmuel Rodensky
Simon Wiesenthal
Hans Caninenberg
Dr.Ferdinand Schultz
Heinz Ehrenfreund
Shapira
Alexander Golling
Colonel