State of Siege
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Costa-gavras
Yves Montand
Renato Salvatori
O. E. Hasse
Jean-luc Bideau
Jacques Weber
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In Uruguay in the early 1970s, an official of the US Agency for International Development (a group used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods) is kidnapped by a group of urban guerillas. Using his interrogation as a backdrop, the film explores the often brutal consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerillas.
Director
Costa-gavras
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
This was going to be the first movie shown in the new John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. It was cancelled because the plot of the movie was judged to be inappropriate. This caused a big controversy. A Washington D.C. television station took advantage of the controversy by acquiring the broadcast rights to the film and showing it uncut after running a big advertising campaign calling it the "film banned from the Kennedy Center."
Miscellaneous Notes
The Country of France
Released in United States 1973
Released in United States 1973
