The Siege (Szükségállapot) — Edward Zwick, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (DVD)

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Product Details

• Product Type: DVD (Region 2 PAL)
• Title: The Siege (Hungarian release title: Szükségállapot)
• Director: Edward Zwick
• Starring: Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Bruce Willis
• Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Intercom (Hungary)
• Release Year (this edition): 2000
• Original Film Year: 1998
• Genre: Action / Political Thriller
• UPC: 5996255703450
• Catalogue No.: F1 00173

Product Features

• Single disc, dual-layer, single-sided DVD
• Runtime: approx. 111 minutes
• Picture: Colour, widescreen 2.35:1 (16:9)
• Audio: English 5.1
• Subtitles: Hungarian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Polish, Czech, Icelandic, English (for the hearing impaired)
• Certificate: 15
• Extras: interactive menus, direct scene access, original theatrical trailer, multi-language subtitling, "making of" featurette
• Condition: Very good — disc and case as pictured

Overview

A bus explodes. Then a theatre, then a school, then the FBI's own field office — and the enemy stays invisible the whole way. The Siege puts Denzel Washington at the centre of a city tearing itself apart, as FBI counter-terror chief Anthony Hubbard tries to find a bombing cell faster than the next blast can land.

Annette Bening plays the CIA operative whose loyalties never quite hold still, and Bruce Willis arrives as the army general who decides patience is over. Martial law comes to New York, tanks roll down the avenues, and the film asks a hard question about what a free society is willing to give up to feel safe.

Edward Zwick directs with the weight of a real argument behind it — this is a tense, adult thriller, not a popcorn shoot-out. Roger Deakins shoots the city as a pressure cooker. Three heavyweight leads, a script with something on its mind, and a runtime that earns every one of its 111 minutes.

Interesting Facts

• The story came from journalist Lawrence Wright, who later won the Pulitzer Prize for The Looming Tower, his book on the road to 9/11.
• Cinematographer Roger Deakins, a 16-time Oscar nominee, shot the film — his eye for cold, documentary-style realism shapes its uneasy tone.
• Tony Shalhoub, years before Monk, plays Hubbard's partner Frank Haddad in one of the film's most grounded performances.
• The film stirred real debate on release for its portrayal of civil liberties under terrorism — a conversation that only grew louder after 2001.
• Composer Graeme Revell built a score that leans on Middle Eastern textures rather than standard action bombast.

Publishers

Produced by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (1998). Hungarian DVD edition released by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, distributed in Hungary by Intercom. Catalogue F1 00173.