Release Date

17 Jun, 2012

Runtime

01:27: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Siege

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Actors

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

Andrew Robertt

Phil Brown

Will Wallace

Ray Woolf

Geraldine Brophy

Stephen Hall

Damien Avery

Crew

Mike Smith

Bridget Bourke

John Banas

Philly de Lacey

Chris Elliot

Margot Francis

DJ Stipsen

Riccardo Pellizzeri