State of Siege

Name: State of Siege
Director: Costa-Gavras
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Released: 1972

Costa-Gavras, 1972

Spine #760

Picked by 2 guests

Thriller / Drama

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Directed by Costa-Gavras

Written by Franco Solinas

Cinematography Pierre-William Glenn

Edited by Françoise Bonnot

Cast Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse, Jacques Weber, Jean-Luc Bideau, Maurice Teynac, Yvette Etiévant, Gloria Laso

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John Sayles director

“This is State of Siege. You know, I saw this, I had seen Z first. This is a movie in a very, very political time. You could actually, if you weren't an American, get away with making a very political movie. This was a filmmaker who had really a lot of political analysis about what was going on in the country but managed to make these thrillers. When we shot our movie Men with Guns, we didn't shoot in Guatemala... So we shot it in Mexico across the border.”

Gaspar Noe director

“Wow, I know, I was trying to find it. It's never been... State of Siege. I saw it as a kid. I saw it like 10 times in a row between the age of 10 and 12 because it was playing next to my House in Argentina and I could get in for free because I knew the guy. It's never been released in France, this DVD. Great movie.”