a time paradox where the Empire of Japan retains its overseas territories after World War II. The Sum of All Fears 2002 thriller in which Fascists plot to trigger a Third World War by framing the Russian Republic for nuking a championship football game attended by the U.S. President. Hero – 2002 Chinese film by Zhang Yimou centred on the assassination attempt directed at Qin Shi Huang, then King of Qin, by an enemy agent in 227 BC Frida – 2002 film by Julie Taymor about Mexican painter Frida Kahlo involves both Soviet exile Leon Trotsky (Geoffrey Rush) and his original, failed, assassin David Alfaro Siqueiros (Antonio Banderas), world-renowned mural painter and Stalinist RFK – 2002 television film by Robert Dornhelm about the life of U.S. politician Robert F. Kennedy from the assassination of his brother in 1963 to his own in 1968 Jean Moulin – 2002 French television film by Yves Boisset about the death of Resistance leader Jean Moulin in Metz in 1943 after Gestapo torture Trudeau – 2002 CBC miniseries by Jerry Ciccoritti about Canadian PM Trudeau (Colm Feore), including the 1970 October Crisis and the assassination of Pierre Laporte The Dancer Upstairs – 2002 film by John Malkovich where the terrorist assassinations of government officials are investigated by a Latin American policeman (Javier Bardem) in spite of the imposition of martial law, inspired by the 1992 capture of the leader of Peru's Sendero Luminoso The Legend of Bhagat Singh – 2002 Indian (Hindi) film by Rajkumar Santoshi about Indian nationalist Bhagat Singh (Ajay Devgan) and the assassination of British police superintendent J.P. Saunders in 1928 23 March 1931: Shaheed – 2002 Indian (Hindi) film by Guddu Dhanoa about Indian nationalist Bhagat Singh (Bobby Deol) and the assassination of British police superintendent J.P. Saunders in 1928 Interview with the Assassin – 2002 mock documentary written and directed by Neil Burger, purportedly about the "second gunman" at the John F. Kennedy assassination. Nothing So Strange – 2002 film, directed by Brian Flemming in the style of an "independent documentary", centring on the fictional assassination of Microsoft's Bill Gates (which occurs before the end of the opening credits) and resonating with numerous references to the John F. Kennedy assassination in 1963 The Quiet American – 2002 film by Phillip Noyce, set in Saigon in French Indochina, where an undercover CIA agent (Brendan Fraser) is assassinated The Bourne Identity –