# The Assignment - Der Auftrag (1997)

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**Original title**: *The Assignment*
**Runtime**: 119 min
**Genres**: Thriller, Action, Crime
**Directed by**: Christian Duguay
**Written by**: Dan Gordon, Sabi H. Shabtai
**Starring**: Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, Ben Kingsley, Claudia Ferri, Céline Bonnier, Vlasta Vrana

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A Paris sidewalk in golden autumn light, an umbrella still spinning from the blast.

Two decades of blood trace a line from that café to CIA hunter Jack Shaw, who’s staked everything on one faint clue.

A body double steps from the shadows, and the chase ends where it began.

**Mood tags**: paranoid, raw

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