Carlos is really a French-German television and theatre biographical picture from 2010, in regards to the life span of the 1970 s terrorist Carlos the Jackal, by his very first set of attacks in 1973 until his arrest in 1994. It premiered as a TV mini-series with the three parts, on pay channel Canal +. On exactly the day it was released on Canal+, the full 51/2 hour variant was shown out of competition at the 2010 Cannes filmfestival. Manufactured by Daniel Leconte of French production firm Film En Stock and Jens Meuer of German Manufacturing firm Egoli Tossell Film, in association with Canal+ and French Arte, it had been headed by Olivier Assayas by a screenplay by Leconte, Assayas along with Dan Franck, along with celebrities Édgar Ramírez as Carlos. The movie exists both being a feature picture of numerous spans between 338 and 319 moments and a three-part miniseries, but in several models that are abridged, from 187 minutes down to 166 moments. Classified like a TV film/TV miniseries as well as a film, Carlos has been awarded both TV awards and awards. One of them the 2010 Golden Globe award for the'Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television', the 2010 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director, the National Society of Film Critics 2010 award for Best Director, the New York Film Critics Circle 2010 award for Best Foreign Language Film, the 2010 European Film Award for Best Editor, the 2010 Critics Award for Best Film at the São Paulo International Film Festival, along with Édgar Ramírez won the 2010 César Award for Most Promising Actor.