Constantinos Gavras (born February 13, 1933), better known as Costa-Gavras (Κώστας Γαβράς), is a Greek born French filmmaker, known for merging controversial political issues with the entertainment value of commercial cinema. Law and justice, oppression, legal/illegal violence, and torture are common...
[more]Constantinos Gavras (born February 13, 1933), better known as Costa-Gavras (Κώστας Γαβράς), is a Greek born French filmmaker, known for merging controversial political issues with the entertainment value of commercial cinema. Law and justice, oppression, legal/illegal violence, and torture are common subjects in his work, especially relevant to his earlier films. Costa Gavras is an expert of the “statement” picture.
Gavras has repeatedly explored political terrain. In most cases, the targets of his work have been right-of-center movements and regimes, including Greek conservatives in and out of the military in Z, and perceived authoritarian governments that ruled much of Latin America during the height of the Cold War, as in State of Siege and Missing.
In a broader sense, this emphasis continues with Amen. given its focus on the conservative leadership of the Catholic Church during the 1940s. In this political context, L'Aveu (The Confession) provides the exception, dealing as it does with oppression on the part of a Communist regime during the Stalinist period. The fact that L'Aveu was made shortly after the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia may appear relevant to the director's decision to tackle this issue at that particular time.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Gavras)
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