“State of Siege” by Costa Gavras on the Second Day of the Festival

TEHRAN (AIPFF) - On the second day of AIPFF, the documentary “State of Siege”, directed by Costa Gavras, is going to be screened on Thursday, 25th of August in Soureh Hall of Howzeh Honari at 14 p.m.

TEHRAN (AIPFF) – On the second day of AIPFF, the documentary “State of Siege”, directed by Costa Gavras, is going to be screened on Thursday, 25th of August in Soureh Hall of Howzeh Honari at 14 p.m.

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 Uruguay in the early 1970s, Santore is kidnapped by a group of urban guerrillas. The story is based on an actual incident in 1970 when U.S. Embassy official Dan Mitrione was kidnapped and killed.

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. In the finale a replacement U.S. official arrives, watched from the crowd by a defiant and angry survivor of the radical group.

The 3rd edition of Ammar International Popular Film Festival starts on the 24^th of August in Teheran, capital city of Iran. The date of the festival is coincided with the 63rd anniversary of the US-sponsored 1953 coup d’état against the government of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq.

The mission of Ammar festival is to help the world become familiarized with the Iranian culture and promote the true image of Iran and the Iranian people.