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7.1A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance – as a secret political assassin controlled by the government.
Cast
- Anne Parillaud as Nikita
- Jean-Hugues Anglade as Marco
- Tchéky Karyo as Bob
- Jean Reno as Victor, the Cleaner
- Marc Duret as Rico
- Jeanne Moreau as Armande
Themes
- undercover agent
- venice, italy
- shotgun
- secret identity
- drugstore
- special unit
- romance
- secret government organization
- hitwoman
- female assassin
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Key facts
- French
- Nikita
- Directed by
- Luc Besson
- Written by
- Luc Besson
- Produced by
- Patrice Ledoux
- Starring
- Anne Parillaud Jean-Hugues Anglade Tchéky Karyo Jeanne Moreau Jean Bouise Jean Reno Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu Roland Blanche Jacques Boudet
- Cinematography
- Thierry Arbogast
- Edited by
- Olivier Mauffroy
- Music by
- Éric Serra
- Production companies
- Gaumont Les Films Du Loup Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica
- Distributed by
- Gaumont Distribution (France) Penta Distribuzione (Italy)
- Release dates
- 21 February 1990 ( 1990-02-21 ) (France) 17 August 1990 ( 1990-08-17 ) (Italy)
- Running time
- 117 minutes
- Countries
- France Italy
- Language
- French
- Budget
- 39 million F, (€ 5.6 million)
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Encyclopedic overview
La Femme Nikita, released as Nikita in France, is a 1990 French-language action thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson. The film stars Anne Parillaud as the title character, a criminal who is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a policeman during the armed robbery of a pharmacy. Her government handlers fake her death and recruit her as a professional assassin. After intense training, she starts a career as a killer, in which she struggles to balance her work with her personal life.
Besson has said that he wrote Nikita with Parillaud, then his romantic partner, in mind. The film was considered a surprise hit. Roger Ebert called it a "smart, hard-edged, psycho-romantic thriller" in his review. Janet Maslin wrote in The New York Times: "La Femme Nikita combines hip violence, punk anomie, lavish settings and an old-fashioned paean to the power of love."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nikita” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.