the Germans use the idea of a captured Rommel in their plan to assassinate Gen. Eisenhower The Conformist – 1970 film by Bernardo Bertolucci about a fascist assassin sent from Italy to assassinate his former professor in Paris. Nicholas and Alexandra – 1971 film by Franklin J. Schaffner where the assassinations of Pyotr Stolypin, Franz Ferdinand, and Rasputin precede the 1918 executions of Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his consort, Tsarina Alexandra They've Killed President Lincoln – 1971 television film by Robert Guenette Mihai Viteazul – 1971 Romanian film by Sergiu Nicolaescu, set during the Long War, about Prince Michael the Brave, ending with his 1601 murder by his ally, Habsburg general Giorgio Basta The Devils – 1971 film by Ken Russell about Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed), a French priest opposed to Cardinal Richelieu, who is burnt at the stake in 1634 for witchcraft Get Carter – 1971 film by Mike Hodges where a London gangster (Michael Caine) in Newcastle avenges his brother's death before an assassin finds him – not the 2000 remake with Sylvester Stallone and a different ending Diamonds Are Forever – 1971 film by Guy Hamilton that opens with James Bond on a vendetta-driven assassination run against Ernst Stavro Blofeld The Assassination of Trotsky – 1972 film by Joseph Losey about the murder of Leon Trotsky (Richard Burton) by the mysterious "Jacson" (Alain Delon) in Mexico City in 1940 Karl Liebknecht – Trotz alledem! – 1972 East German film by Günter Reisch in which Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, Spartacist League leaders, are murdered by Berlin Freikorps in 1919 Sarajevski atentat – 1972 Yugoslavian (Serbo-Croatian) television film by Arsenije Jovanović about the 1914 plot to assassinate Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Young Bosnia nationalist (Milan Mihailović) and his co-conspirators Les Thibault – 1972 French ORTF miniseries by Alain Boudet and André Michel includes the assassination of Socialist leader and pacifist Jean Jaurès in 1914 State of Siege – 1972 French film by Costa-Gavras about the execution of a U.S. government torturer (Yves Montand) in Uruguay by Tupamaro guerrillas, based on the 1970 Dan Mitrione case Pope Joan – 1972 film by Michael Anderson about the lynching of Pope Joan (Liv Ullmann), the legendary female English Pope, when her sex is discovered The Godfather – 1972 film by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel by Mario Puzo, in which the attempted assassination of a Mafia