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Nikita (re-titled La Femme Nikita in some countries) is a 1990 French movie written and directed by Luc Besson. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
Luc Besson [IPA: lyk bɛsɔ̃] (born March 18, 1959) is a French film director, writer and producer. ...
Patrice Ledoux is a French movie producer. ...
Anne Parillaud (born May 6, 1960 in Paris, France) is a French actress. ...
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Tchéky Karyo as Dmitri Mishkin in the James Bond film Goldeneye. ...
Éric Serra Éric Serra (born on September 9, 1959) is a French composer. ...
Gaumont Pictures were founded in 1895 by the engineer-turned-inventor, Léon Gaumont (1864-1946). ...
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The year 1990 in film involved some significant events. ...
Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...
Luc Besson [IPA: lyk bɛsɔ̃] (born March 18, 1959) is a French film director, writer and producer. ...
Plot
Nikita (Anne Parillaud) is a teen-aged delinquent and heroin addict who participates in robbing the pharmacy of the parents of a fellow junkie. The robbery goes awry, degenerating to a gunfight with local police during which her cohort are killed. Suffering severe withdrawal symptoms, she shoots a policeman. Nikita is arrested, tried, convicted of murder, and imprisoned for life, with parole considered after thirty years. Anne Parillaud (born May 6, 1960 in Paris, France) is a French actress. ...
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Withdrawal refers to the characteristic signs and symptoms that appear when a drug that causes a physical dependency is regularly used for a long time and then suddenly discontinued or decreased in dosage. ...
In prison, she is drugged to simulate a death sentence; she awakens in an anonymous room. A well-dressed, hard man (Tchéky Karyo) enters and reveals that, although officially dead and buried after suicide by overdose, she is in custody of the DGSE, the French intelligence agency. She is given to choose: work as a DGSE assassin or be killed. After some resistance, she chooses the former and proves a talented killer. One of her trainers, Amande (Jeanne Moreau), transforms her from grimy gutter trash to femme fatale; Amande, too, was so rescued and recruited. Tchéky Karyo as Dmitri Mishkin in the James Bond film Goldeneye. ...
Logo of Francess Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) / General Directorate for External Security. ...
Jack Ruby murdered the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, in a very public manner. ...
Jeanne Moreau (French IPA: ; born 23 January 1928) is a BAFTA Awards-winning French actress, screenwriter and director. ...
Convicted spy Mata Hari made her name synonymous with femme fatale during WWI. A femme fatale (plural: femmes fatales) is an alluring and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers in bonds of irresistible desire, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations. ...
Her initiation mission, killing a diplomat in a crowded restaurant and escaping back to the Centre, is the film's highlight; she is graduated and begins life as a sleeper agent in Paris with her boyfriend (Jean-Hugues Anglade), a man she met in a supermarket. French actor. ...
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Her assassin's career continues well, until an embassy document-theft goes awry, requiring the ruthless participation of 'The Cleaner' (Jean Reno) in destroying the mission's evidence and all corpses; The Cleaner is wounded and dies; Nikita abandons the Agency, the city of Paris, and her boat designer boyfriend. Jean Reno (born Juan Moreno y Herrera Jiménez (Spanish) [1][2] while French sources spell it as Don Juan Moreno y Herrera Jimenez [3]. on July 30, 1948) is a French actor. ...
Critical and public reception Nikita was positively reviewed by critics, including Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert.[citation needed] The film was an early modern action film from France with broad appeal world-wide.[citation needed] Critics and viewers noted Luc Besson's gallic inversion of Hollywood and Hong Kong action film conventions, emphasising the killer's humanity. Eugene Gene Kal Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) was one of the worlds most successful film critics. ...
Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ...
Remake In 1993, Warner Bros. remade Nikita in English as Point of No Return (The Assassin), directed by John Badham and starring Bridget Fonda. Nikita also inspired the 1991 Hong Kong action film Black Cat, which closely follows the original film’s storyline. “WB†redirects here. ...
In film, a remake is a newer version of a previously released film or a newer version of the source (play, novel, story, etc. ...
The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
For other meanings of point of no return, see Point of no return (disambiguation). ...
John Badham (born August 25, 1939, UK) is a film director. ...
Bridget Jane Fonda (born January 27, 1964) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-award nominated American actress. ...
TV series A TV series was produced in 1997 based in this film. It was produced in Canada by Warner Bros. and Fireworks Entertainment. La Femme Nikita ran for five seasons on USA Network, and generated a sizeable cult following of its own. It was created by Joel Surnow, who later co-created 24 with fellow La Femme Nikita executive consultant Robert Cochran. “WB†redirects here. ...
Nikita is a television spy drama based upon the French film directed by Luc Besson (see Nikita). ...
USA Network is a popular American cable television network with about 89 million household subscribers as of 2005. ...
Joel Surnow is an American writer and producer best known for being the creator of the Emmy winning television series 24. ...
For other uses, see 24 (disambiguation). ...
Robert Cochran (also credited as Bob Cochran) is the co-creator of the television series 24, which is currently airing on the Fox television network. ...
See also // This is a list of fictional stories in which assassinations feature as an important plot element. ...
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