Criterion Collection Year 2010 Theatrical Release 2010 10 15 Video Release 2011 09 27 Studio IFC Films Genre TV Miniseries MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color Runtime 330 Animated Live Action Full Synopsis CARLOS, directed by Olivier Assayas Summer Hours , is an epic, intensely detailed account of the life of the infamous international terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez also known as Carlos the Jackal. One of the twentieth century's most wanted fugitives, Carlos was committed to violent left wing activism throughout the seventies and eighties, orchestrating bombings, kidnappings, and hijackings in Europe and the Middle East. Assayas portrays him not as a criminal mastermind but as a symbol of seismic political shifts around the world, and the magnetic Edgar Ramirez The Bourne Ultimatum brilliantly embodies him as a swaggering global gangster. Criterion presents the complete, uncut, director approved, five and a half hour version of CARLOS. Director Olivier Assayas Cast Olivier Assayas; Edgar Ramirez; Alexander Scheer; Nora von Waldstatten; Ahmad Kaabour; Juana Acosta