یک قاتل بینالمللی به نام 'جکال' توسط ژنرالهای ناراضی فرانسوی برای کشتن رئیسجمهور شارل دوگل استخدام میشود، در حالی که یک ژاندارم متعهد در پی قاتل است.
The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 political thriller film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox and Michael Lonsdale. Based on the 1971 novel by Frederick Forsyth, the film is about a professional assassin known only as the "Jackal" who is hired to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle in the summer of 1963.