French director Olivier Assayas takes on one of the most notorious figures of the 1970s in "Carlos," a five-and-a-half hour epic on the Venezuelan-born revolutionary, shown at the Cannes film ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Carlos the Jackal, formerly one of the world’s most wanted terrorists.

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, a political terrorist, was nicknamed Carlos the Jackal after Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel.

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Carlos the Jackal, formerly one of the world’s most wanted terrorists. His father named him after Vladmir IIyich Lenin. Reportedly provided financial ...

CNN — (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Carlos the Jackal, formerly one of the world’s most wanted terrorists. His father named him after Vladmir IIyich Lenin. Reportedly provided ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Carlos the Jackal, formerly one of the world’s most wanted terrorists. His father named him after Vladmir IIyich Lenin. Reportedly provided financial ...