Besieged is a 1998 film

Film

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 by Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci

Bernardo Bertolucci is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers...

 starring Thandie Newton

Thandie Newton

Thandiwe Nashita "Thandie" Newton is a British actress. She has appeared in a number of British and American films, including The Pursuit of Happyness, Mission: Impossible II, Crash, Run, Fatboy, Run and W....

 and David Thewlis

David Thewlis

David Thewlis is an English actor of stage and screen. His most commercially successful role to date has been that of Remus Lupin, in the Harry Potter film series...

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It is based on the short story "The Siege" by James Lasdun

James Lasdun

James Lasdun is an English author, poet and academic. Lasdun was one of the judges for the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize.-Career:...

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Plot

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.

Cast

• Thandie Newton
  Thandie Newton
  Thandiwe Nashita "Thandie" Newton is a British actress. She has appeared in a number of British and American films, including The Pursuit of Happyness, Mission: Impossible II, Crash, Run, Fatboy, Run and W....
  
   : Shandurai
• David Thewlis
  David Thewlis
  David Thewlis is an English actor of stage and screen. His most commercially successful role to date has been that of Remus Lupin, in the Harry Potter film series...
  
   : Jason Kinsky
• Claudio Santamaria
  Claudio Santamaria
  Claudio Santamaria is an Italian actor best known for portraying the terrorist Carlos in Casino Royale 2006....
  
   : Agostino
• John C. Ojwang : Singer
• Massimo De Rossi : Patient
• Cyril Nri
  Cyril Nri
  Cyril Nri is a British actor, writer and director. He attended the Young Vic Youth Theatre in Waterloo, London. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and is probably best known for playing the role of Superintendent Adam Okaro, now Chief Superintendent, in the long-running ITV police...
  
  : Priest

External links

• Besieged at urbancinefile.com.au
• Besieged at MSN Movies
• http://www.reelviews.net/movies/b/besieged.html
• http://josue163281.myrobotsblog.com/category/besieged/
• http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/05/36/besieged.html
• http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Movie/F0246.htm
• http://www.answers.com/topic/besieged-film-1
• http://www.filmbug.com/asin/B00001YXH7