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**Brecht** · June 12th, 2018, 07:02 PM

État de siège (1972)

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Philip Michael Santore (Yves Montand), a USAID bureaucrat, is kidnapped by a group of revolutionaries in Montevideo, Uruguay. Though he insists on ignorance, Santore's actual role is gradually exposed: he was sent to either train the government's countinsurgent death squads or to serve as a liaison between the US and Latin American governments who send their people to the US for extended training. Back in their homelands, they're torturing and assassinating leftist students and union representatives, all in the name of the "free world" and "Christian civilization".

Costa-Gavras has made some great political thrillers and State of Siege might be the best among them. You can't expect a feature film to provide you with even a basic political education but it can point you in a direction. If you follow a path, what discoveries you make and what conclusions you draw is entirely up to you. But the events depicted in this film and other films on this topic were reality in South America. Oligarchs with business ties to the US were running most of the continent. They were selling out their countries to protect their privilege. State of Siege is based on actual incident in 1970 when US Embassy official Dan Mitrione was kidnapped and killed by the Tupamaro guerrillas.

June 12th, 2018, 07:02 PM	#11063
Brecht Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 10,657 Thanks: 180,485 Thanked 188,145 Times in 10,453 Posts	État de siège (1972) Trailer Philip Michael Santore (Yves Montand), a USAID bureaucrat, is kidnapped by a group of revolutionaries in Montevideo, Uruguay. Though he insists on ignorance, Santore's actual role is gradually exposed: he was sent to either train the government's countinsurgent death squads or to serve as a liaison between the US and Latin American governments who send their people to the US for extended training. Back in their homelands, they're torturing and assassinating leftist students and union representatives, all in the name of the "free world" and "Christian civilization". Costa-Gavras has made some great political thrillers and State of Siege might be the best among them. You can't expect a feature film to provide you with even a basic political education but it can point you in a direction. If you follow a path, what discoveries you make and what conclusions you draw is entirely up to you. But the events depicted in this film and other films on this topic were reality in South America. Oligarchs with business ties to the US were running most of the continent. They were selling out their countries to protect their privilege. State of Siege is based on actual incident in 1970 when US Embassy official Dan Mitrione was kidnapped and killed by the Tupamaro guerrillas.