State of Siege
- IMDb link: 0070959
- IMDb rating: 7.7 (6,724 votes)
- Genres: Thriller, Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Director: Costa-Gavras, Jacques Weber
- Cast: Renato Salvatori, Yves Montand, O.E. Hasse and others
- 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.