La Femme Nikita (1997)

Synopsis

Nikita is a drug-addicted juvenile delinquent who was accused of killing a police officer in cold blood during an attempted robbery of a pharmacy. She is later arrested and sentenced to death by lethal injection, upon which she was secretly drugged by the government, faking her death. Nikita is then "recruited" by a secret government organization and transformed into a highly skilled assassin who cannot be traced.

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Cast

• Peta Wilson as Nikita
• Roy Dupuis as Michael
• Matthew Ferguson as Seymour Birkoff
• Eugene Robert Glazer as Operations
• Don Francks as Walter
• Alberta Watson as Madeline
• Carlo Rota as Mick Stoppel
• Cindy Dolenc as Kate Quinn
• Lawrence Bayne as Davenport
• David Hemblen as George

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