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The Assignment (1997 film), the Glossary

The Assignment is a 1997 spy action thriller film directed by Christian Duguay and starring Aidan Quinn (in two roles), with Donald Sutherland and Ben Kingsley.^[1]

Action film

The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work.

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Aidan Quinn

Aidan Quinn (born March 8, 1959) is an American actor.

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Ben Kingsley

Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor.

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Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (born 12 October 1949), also known as Carlos the Jackal (Carlos el Chacal) or simply Carlos, is a Venezuelan who conducted a series of assassinations and terrorist bombings from 1973 to 1985.

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Céline Bonnier

Céline Bonnier (born 31 August 1965) is a French Canadian actress from Quebec.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.

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Christian Duguay (director)

Christian Duguay (born March 30, 1957) is a Canadian film director.

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Claude Genest

Claude William Genest is a former Canadian journalist, actor, and TV host.

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Claudia Ferri

Claudia Ferri is a Canadian-American actress.

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Dan Gordon (screenwriter)

Dan Gordon (דן גורדון; born) is an Israeli-American screenwriter, television writer, television producer, television director, film producer, novelist, playwright, film director, and reserve duty captain in the Israel Defense Forces.

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Daniel Pilon

Daniel Pilon (November 13, 1940 – June 26, 2018) was a Canadian actor, known for his role for the television series Dallas as Renaldo "Naldo" Marchetta.

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Donald Sutherland

Donald McNichol Sutherland (17 July 1935 – 20 June 2024) was a Canadian actor.

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Double agent

In the field of counterintelligence, a double agent is an employee of a secret intelligence service for one country, whose primary purpose is to spy on a target organization of another country, but who is now spying on their own country's organization for the target organization.

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East Berlin

East Berlin (Ost-Berlin) was the partially recognised capital of East Germany (GDR) from 1949 to 1990.

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Heathrow Airport

Heathrow Airport, called London Airport until 1966, is the main international airport serving London, the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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KGB

The Committee for State Security (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (KGB)) was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 13 March 1954 until 3 December 1991.

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Liliana Komorowska

Liliana Komorowska (born 11 April 1956) is a Polish actress and filmmaker.

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Mossad

The Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations (ha-Mosád le-Modiʿín u-le-Tafkidím Meyuḥadím), popularly known as Mossad, is the national intelligence agency of the State of Israel.

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Normand Corbeil

Normand Corbeil (April 6, 1956 – January 25, 2013) was a Canadian composer known for his work on films, video games and television.

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OPEC

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is an organization enabling the co-operation of leading oil-producing and oil-dependent countries in order to collectively influence the global oil market and maximize profit.

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OPEC siege

On 21 December 1975, six terrorists attacked the semi-annual meeting of OPEC leaders in Vienna, Austria; the attackers took more than 60 hostages after killing an Austrian policeman, an Iraqi OPEC security officer, and a Libyan economist.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Saint Martin (island)

Saint Martin (Saint-Martin; Sint Maarten) is an island in the northeast Caribbean, approximately east of Puerto Rico.

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Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group

The Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group (commonly known as the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, formerly known as the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group until 2013, and abbreviated as SPMPG) is a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment to manage its motion picture operations.

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Spy film

The spy film, also known as the spy thriller, is a genre of film that deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way (such as the adaptations of John le Carré) or as a basis for fantasy (such as many James Bond films).

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Triumph Films

Triumph Films (also known as Triumph Releasing Corporation) was an American independent film studio division of Sony Pictures Entertainment that geared towards theatre and direct-to-video film production and distribution. The Assignment (1997 film) and Triumph Films are Triumph Films films.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.

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Vlasta Vrána

Vlasta Vrána (born 1950) is a Canadian actor of Czech descent.

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Von Flores

Valentin Andres Tanga Flores IV, known by his professional name as Von Flores, is a Filipino-Canadian actor.

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Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC; formerly known as the National Naval Medical Center and colloquially referred to as Bethesda Naval Hospital, Walter Reed, or Navy Med) is a United States military medical center located in Bethesda, Maryland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Assignment_(1997_film)

The Assignment (1997 film), the Glossary

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See also

1990s political thriller films

1990s spy thriller films

1997 action thriller films

Cultural depictions of Carlos the Jackal

English-language spy thriller films

Films about terrorism in Africa

Films directed by Christian Duguay (director)

Films scored by Normand Corbeil

Films set in Libya

Triumph Films films

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