State of Siege

State of Siege
  • Release date: 8 Feb 1973
  • Release year: 1972
  • Runtime: 120 minutes
  • Country: France, Italy, West Germany, Chile
  • Keywords: cia operative, uruguay, guerilla, revolutionary, latin american politics, kidnapping, operation condor, electrical torture, politics, male nudity
Plot:
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.
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