Directed by:
Costa-GavrasCinematography:
Pierre-William GlennComposer:
Mikis TheodorakisCast:
Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, Jacques Weber, André Falcon, O.E. Hasse, Aldo Francia, Maurice Teynac, Jacques Perrin, Jean-Luc Bideau, Yvette Etiévant (more)VOD (2)
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Yves Montand plays Philip Michael Santore, an official of the United States Agency for International Development (an organisation sometimes used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods). Posted to a fictional South American country in the early 1970s, Santore is kidnapped by a group of urban guerrillas. Using Santore's interrogation by his captors as a backdrop, the film explores the often brutal consequences of the struggle between the repressive government of Montevideo and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas. Using death squads, the government decimates the revolutionary group, whose surviving members vote to execute the smugly calculating Santore, who is accused of arranging training in torture and political manipulation. The story is based by Costa Gavras on an actual incident in Uruguay in 1970 when U.S. Embassy official Dan Mitrione was kidnapped and killed. (Moscow International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Yves Montand
Italy
Best movies:
Jean de Florette (1986)
Manon of the Spring (1986)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Renato Salvatori
Italy
Best movies:
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
Una breve vacanza (1973)
Two Women (1960)
Jacques Weber
France
Best movies:
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
State of Siege (1972)
R.A.S. (1973)
André Falcon
France
Best movies:
No Time for Breakfast (1976)
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O.E. Hasse
German Empire
Best movies:
Die vertauschte Braut (1934)
The Last Laugh (1924)
Knockout - Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann (1935)
Aldo Francia
Chile
Best movies:
State of Siege (1972)
Maurice Teynac
France
Best movies:
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Holy Year (1976)
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
Jacques Perrin
France
Best movies:
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
The Chorus (2004)
State of Siege (1972)
Jean-Luc Bideau
Switzerland
Best movies:
State of Siege (1972)
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976)
Tom Thumb (1972)
Yvette Etiévant
France
Best movies:
Dialogue with the Carmelites (1960)
War of the Buttons (1962)
Les Misérables (1982)
Gloria Münchmeyer
Chile
Best movies:
State of Siege (1972)
The Dancer and the Thief (2009)
Le Comte (2023)
Alejandro Sieveking
Chile
Best movies:
State of Siege (1972)
The Club (2015)
Play (2005)
Jerry Brouer
Best movies:
Don't Look Now: We're Being Shot At (1966)
State of Siege (1972)
The Brain (1969)
Maurice Jacquemont
France
Best movies:
The Confession (1970)
Docteur Teyran (1980) (TV movie)
State of Siege (1972)
Harald Wolff
German Empire
Best movies:
State of Siege (1972)
Decision Before Dawn (1951)
The Crossing of Paris (1956)
Héctor Noguera
Chile
Best movies:
State of Siege (1972)
Jackal of Nahueltoro (1969)
South Desert (2008)
Rafael Benavente
Best movies:
State of Siege (1972)
Jackal of Nahueltoro (1969)
Alejandro Misle
Best movies:
State of Siege (1972)
Jean-François Gobbi
Best movies:
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
The Confession (1970)
State of Siege (1972)