Siege
5 votes
On the 7th of May 2009, Senior Constables Len Snee, Grant Diver and Bruce Miller arrived at 41 Chaucer Rd in Napier to serve a search warrant on Jan Molenaar for the growing of cannabis. This was just a routine warrant, something they had done countless times. What was meant to be an ordinary procedure turned into three of New Zealand’s darkest days and ended with one police officer dead, two officers critically injured and a member of the public fighting for his life. In some fifty hours Jan Molenaar made a permanent and devastating imprint upon the national psyche of New Zealand as he changed the lives of individuals, families, a police community, and a city. The siege was one of the worst and unexpected cases of violence both Napier and New Zealand had witnessed and it was all the more shocking because of its ordinary suburban backdrop.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2012-06-17
Runtime: 87 mins
Director: Mike Smith
Writer: John Banas
Spoken language: English, Magyar
Genres: Crime, History, Drama
Original title: Siege
Production Companies: Screentime, Television New Zealand
Production Countries: New Zealand
Cast
Mark Mitchinson
Darren Young
Jon Cummings
Joel Tobeck
Miriama Smith
Alistair Browning
Toby Leach
Will Hall
Kirk Torrance
Mark Warren
Peter Feeney
Nathalie Boltt
Laurie Dee
Jason Whyte
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