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Release year: 1990

Storyline

Convicted felon Nikita isn't going to jail; she's given a new identity and trained, stylishly, as a top secret spy/assassin.

Top credits

Directors

Luc Besson

Writers

Luc Besson

Cast

Anne Parillaud — Nikita, Marie Clément
Marc Duret — Rico
Patrick Fontana — Coyotte
Alain Lathière — Zap

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Did you know

• The first scene Nikita appears in was the first one Anne Parillaud shot. Despite having only one line, Luc Besson had Parillaud deliver nearly a hundred takes. She later found out that he used the second take in the movie.

• Luc Besson had Anne Parillaud train extensively with guns so that she would be completely at ease with them. Parillaud took to practicing loading and unloading a fake gun in her car which led to her being pulled over by the police and having their guns drawn on her in traffic one day as they thought her weapon was real.

• The film's onscreen title is simply "Nikita". It is titled in the United States as "La Femme Nikita" ("The Woman Nikita"). This is a man's name in languages such as Russian.