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Directed by | Costa-Gavras |
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Produced by | Jacques Perrin |
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Cinematography | Pierre-William Glenn |
Edited by | Françoise Bonnot |
Music by | Mikis Theodorakis |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
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State of Siege (French: État de siège) is a 1972 French–Italian–West German political thriller film directed by Costa-Gavras starring Yves Montand and Renato Salvatori. The story is based on an actual incident in 1970, when U.S. official Dan Mitrione was kidnapped and later killed by an urban guerilla group in Uruguay.[3][4]