Costa-Gavras

Costa-GAVRAS (1933, Greece) is a Greek-French film director and producer. He worked as an assistant for directors such as René Clair, René Clement, Jacques Demy, Marcel Ophüls and Jean Becker. His father was a part of the Pro-Soviet branch of the Greek Resistance against the occupying Nazi forces in World War II, for which he was later imprisoned during the Greek Civil War. Like his father, Gavras is deeply political, using filmmaking as an expressive tool for activism. Among his most notable films are Z (1969), winner of the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Editing as well as the Jury Prize in Cannes; Missing (1981), Academy Award for Best Screenplay and Palme d’Or in Cannes; Music Box (1989), winner of the Golden Bear in Berlin; and Amen (2002), winner of the César for Best Screenplay. In 2012 he competed in San Sebastián with Le capital. In 2019 he received the Donostia Award and the Festival screened his movie Adults in the Room. He has been the president of the Cinémathèque Française since 2007.

Filmography

Les rates (1958, short), Compartiment tueurs/The Sleeping Car Murders (1965), Un homme de trop/Shock Troops (1967), Z (1969), L’aveu/The Confession (1970), Yves Montand (1970, TV doc), État de siège/State of Siege (1972), Section spéciale/Special Section (1975), Clair de femme/Womanlight (1979), Missing (1982), Hanna K. (1983), Conseil de famille/Family Council (1986), Betrayed (1988), Music Box (1989), Contre l’oubli/Lest We Forget (1991, co-dir), La petite apocalypse/The Little Apocalypse (1993), À propos de Nice, la suite (1995, doc), Lumière et compagnie/Lumière and Company (1995, doc), Mad City (1997), Amen. (2002), Le couperet/The Ax (2005), Eden à l’Ouest/Eden Is West (2009), Le capital/Capital (2012), Adults in the Room (2019), Le Dernier Souffle/Last Breath (2024)

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