Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
Mon 12 Sep, 9:00 pm - 10:30 pm 90mins


In 1974, a teenage newspaper heiress and Berkeley undergraduate was kidnapped at gunpoint from her apartment, setting off one of the most bizarre episodes in recent American history.

The kidnappers, completely off the map before Patty Hearst disappeared into the San Francisco night, were a small band of young, ferociously militant political radicals, dedicated to the rights of prisoners and the working class. They called themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army.

Over the course of about three years they robbed banks, senselessly killed two innocent people, instigated a firefight after attempting to shoplift a pair of socks, and, most famously, converted their hostage and victim. They also achieved an undeniable visionary manipulation of the media, inciting perhaps the first modern media frenzy. Strong language. [S]


Subtitles Stereo Widescreen

Website:
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2005/05/31/guerilla_the_taking_of_patty_hearst_2005_review.shtml