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. The pianist becomes smitten with her and winds up pawning or selling everything he owns [including his ...
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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. 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 gets out of prison and comes to Rome, but she has fallen in love with the Englishman by the time he arrives.
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