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Besieged is a film of genre Drama directed by Bernardo Bertolucci released in USA on 21 may 1999 with Thandie Newton
Besieged (1998)
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Add to a movie listBesieged (Italian title: L'assedio) is a 1998 film by Bernardo Bertolucci starring Thandie Newton and David Thewlis.
It is based on the short story "The Siege" by James Lasdun.
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David Thewlis plays eccentric English pianist and composer Mr. Kinsky, who lives in a very old, but charming villa in Rome. Thandie Newton plays his housemaid Shandurai, an African refugee whose husband is a political prisoner on “the Black continent”. Kinsky falls in love with Shandurai, sends her gifts regularly, for which she is often mad. Once, having presented her ring, he dares to express the love he feels for her, but she refuses him angrily. When he asks her what he should do to make her love him, she shouts, “Get my husband out of jail!” Then Kinsky for the first time realizes that Shandurai is married.Actors
Thandie Newton
(Shandurai)
David Thewlis
(Jason Kinsky)
Claudio Santamaria
(Agostino)
Veronica Lazăr
(piano buyer)
Cyril Nri
(Priest)
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