Nikita (also known by the title: La Femme Nikita) is a 1990 Franco-Italian thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson; it was released in the United States as La Femme Nikita. The film centers around a young female criminal who is recruited to work as an assassin for the French government.
Nikita (Anne Parillaud) is a teenage junkie who participates in the robbery of a pharmacy owned by a friend's parents. The robbery goes awry, erupting in...
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Nikita (also known by the title: La Femme Nikita) is a 1990 Franco-Italian thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson; it was released in the United States as La Femme Nikita. The film centers around a young female criminal who is recruited to work as an assassin for the French government.
Nikita (Anne Parillaud) is a teenage junkie who participates in the robbery of a pharmacy owned by a friend's parents. The robbery goes awry, erupting into a gunfight with local police, during which her cohorts are killed. Suffering severe withdrawal symptoms, she murders a policeman. Nikita is arrested, tried, and convicted of murder and is sentenced to life in prison.
In prison, her captors fake her death, making it appear that she has committed suicide via a tranquilizer overdose. She awakens in a nondescript room, where a well-dressed but hard-looking man named Bob (Tchéky Karyo) enters and reveals that, although officially dead and buried, she is in the custody of a shadowy government...
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