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Costa-Gavras is an expert of the "statement" picture. In most cases, the targets of Costa-Gavras's work have been right wing or far right movements and regimes, including the Greek military in Z, and right-wing dictatorships that ruled much of Latin America during the height of the Cold War, as in State of Siege and Missing. [citation needed]
Costa-Gavras at the 2017 César Awards. Costa-Gavras is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter and producer. Most of Gavras' films have been made in French; however, six of them were made in the English language.
Missing (stylized as missing.) is a 1982 American biographical thriller drama film directed by Costa-Gavras from a screenplay written by Gavras and Donald E. Stewart, adapted from the book The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice (1978) by Thomas Hauser (later republished under the title Missing in 1982), based on the disappearance of American journalist Charles Horman, in the ...
Costa-Gavras, the celebrated Franco-Greek master who’s won an Oscar and a Palme d’Or, has teamed with French sales company Playtime for his latest film, “Last Breath.” Currently in post ...
The Sleeping Car Murders (also known as The Sleeping Car Murder, French title: Compartiment tueurs) is a 1965 French mystery film directed by Costa-Gavras from the novel by Sébastien Japrisot. It stars Yves Montand , Simone Signoret , Michel Piccoli , Jean-Louis Trintignant , Catherine Allégret , Jacques Perrin , Charles Denner and Pascale ...
Z is a 1969 political thriller film directed by Costa-Gavras, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jorge Semprún, adapted from the 1967 novel by Vassilis Vassilikos.The film presents a thinly fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of democratic Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963.
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The 35th Cannes Film Festival took place from 14 to 26 May 1982. [3] Italian opera and theatre director Giorgio Strehler served as jury president for the main competition.. The Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, was jointly awarded to Missing by Costa-Gavras and Yol by Yılmaz Güney and Şerif Gören.