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Release Date: 1998

Cast: Thandie Newton, Claudio Santamaria, Gian Franco Mazzoni, Veronica Lazar, Massimo De Rossi, Elena Perino, John C. Ojwang, Maria Mazetti Di Pietralata, Cyril Nri, Paul Osul, Lorenzo Mollica, Natalia Mignosa ...MORE

Cast: Thandie Newton, Claudio Santamaria, Gian Franco Mazzoni, Veronica Lazar, Massimo De Rossi, Elena Perino, John C. Ojwang, Maria Mazetti Di Pietralata, Cyril Nri, Paul Osul, Lorenzo Mollica, Natalia Mignosa, Andrea Quercia, Alexander Menis, David Thewlis ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Political Drama, Romance Film, Erotic Drama, World Cinema, Romantic Drama, Drama Film

Besieged (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. David Thewlis plays an English pianist/composer living in Rome. Thandie Newton plays his housekeeper, an African refugee whose husband is a political prisoner in Africa and who is studying medicine in Rome. The pianist becomes smitten with her and winds up pawning or selling everything he owns (including his most precious possession, a Steinway grand piano) in order to help get her husband out of jail. In the end,... MORE

Besieged (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. David Thewlis plays an English pianist/composer living in Rome. Thandie Newton plays his housekeeper, an African refugee whose husband is a political prisoner in Africa and who is studying medicine in Rome. The pianist becomes smitten with her and winds up pawning or selling everything he owns (including his most precious possession, a Steinway grand piano) in order to help get her husband out of jail. In the end, the husband is freed and joins his wife, but the night before his arrival she has finally slept with the Englishman. LESS