La Femme Nikita (film)
1990 Franco-Italian action thriller film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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La Femme Nikita,[lower-alpha 1] also called 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 teen criminal who is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering policemen during an armed pharmacy robbery. Her government handlers fake her death and recruit her as a professional assassin. After intense training, she starts a career as a killer, where she struggles to balance her work with her personal life. She shows talent at this and her career progresses until a mission in an embassy goes awry.
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| French | Nikita |
| Directed by | Luc Besson |
| Written by | Luc Besson |
| Produced by | Patrice Ledoux[1] |
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| Cinematography | Thierry Arbogast |
| Edited by | Olivier Mauffroy[1] |
| Music by | Éric Serra |
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| Distributed by | Gaumont (France) Penta Distribuzione (Italy) |
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Running time | 117 minutes[2] |
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| Language | French |
| Budget | 39 million F |
Nikita was commercially successful, but received mixed reviews from critics. It was remade as Black Cat (1991) in Hong Kong, Point of No Return (1993) in Hollywood, and in Bollywood as Kartoos (1999). Two English-language television series were produced based on the film, La Femme Nikita (1997–2001) and Nikita (2010–2013).