State of Siege -

State of Siege is a 1972 French film directed by Costa-Gavras. The sound track of the film was composed by the Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis. is one of the most popular melodies in the sound track. The guitar solo version here is arranged by Boghrat Sadeghan and is performed by Farhad Dehghani. 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 (an official of the United States Agency for International Development), 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.
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