Synopsis
Nikita is a young lady who with two Nihilist friends commit robbery and murder while on drugs. After her trial she is not executed or taken to prison, but to a school for special operatives. She is told that Nikita no longer exists and she will be trained to pay back society for what she has done, as a spy/assassin. She is trained for over two years and with no warning is handed a gun in a restaurant and told to kill the man at the next table as her handler leaves.
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Credits
Director (1)
Actors (31)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Gaumont, Les Films du Loup
- Foreign production company : Cecchi Gori Group
- Film exports/foreign sales : Gaumont
- French distribution : Gaumont
Full credits (22)
- Screenwriter : Luc Besson
- Director of Photography : Thierry Arbogast
- Music Composer : Éric Serra
- Assistant directors : Guillaume De Bary, Christophe Vassort
- Editor : Olivier Mauffroy
- Sound recordists : Michel Barlier, Pierre Befve, Patrice Grisolet, Marie Guesnier
- Costume designers : Valentine Breton Des Loys, Mimi Lempicka
- Foreign Producer : Vittorio Cecchi Gori
- Producers : Luc Besson, Patrice Ledoux, Claude Besson
- Sound Assistant : Xavier Griette
- Assistant Operators : Vincent Jeannot, Jeanne Lapoirie, Germain Desmoulins
- Camera Operator : Jacques Monge
- Production Manager : Jérôme Chalou
- Assistant editors : Fanchon Brulé, Nathalie Hureau, Annie Marciniak
- Continuity supervisor : Élisabeth Chochoy
- Art director : Ambre Fernandez-Sansonetti
- Foley artist : Jérôme Lévy
- Stunt performer : Jean-Louis Airola
- Construction Manager : Christian Gazio
- Sound Mixer : Gérard Lamps
- Still Photographer : Patrick Camboulive
- Location manager : Christine De Jekel
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Thriller, Legend
- Themes : Femininity, Murder
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Italy