The play by the maribor slovene national theatre in 1955. Licensed to youtube by the orchard music on behalf of fm records, and 3 music rights. Costagavras puts the united states involvement in latin american politics under the microscope in this arresting thriller. An alien species called the kulku demand that eight million human beings be handed over to them. My recollection is that the movie starts with soldiers looking for a body at dawn. Avec yves montand, jacques weber, renato salvatori, jeanluc bideau, maurice teynac. In this nightmarish future, a city is reduced to silence and submission to. I have seen this movie in theaters several times years ago and i may be wrong and confuse this with another costa gavras movie i seem to remember that the opening scenes were totally different. Cowritten by franco solinas, the electrifying state of siege piercingly. Retrouvez tous les produits design daujourdhui dans notre catalogue en ligne. Using santores interrogation by his captors as a backdrop, the film. Yves montand plays philip michael santore, an official of the united states agency for international.
Using his interrogation as a backdrop, the film explores the often brutal. Costagavrass state of siege is available now in bluray and dvd special editions from the criterion collection. State of siege, the result of their snooping, is an indictment of american interference in south american internal affairs. It is the true story of the urban guerrilla war in uruguay, and it exposes the united states actions to defeat. An urban guerrilla group, outraged at the counterinsurgency and torture training clandestinely organized by the cia in their country unnamed in the film, abducts a u. Written in 1948, the state of siege the original sense is closer to state of emergencyis a play in three acts presenting the arrival of plague. Using the interrogation of a us counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between uruguays government and the leftist tupamaro guerrillas. Costagavras and solinas have changed the location and the names of the characters all they claim is that the events in the film actually took place in a south american country. This is a 3file movie sos produced around the time of the popular unity. Alien siege is a 2005 scifi channel original movie about an alien race that comes to earth seeking a cure to a deadly virus, for which the antidote is human blood.
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