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The Confession (French: L'aveu) is a 1970 French-Italian film directed by Costa-Gavras starring Yves Montand and Simone Signoret. It is based on the true story of the Czechoslovak communist committed leftist Artur London, a defendant in the Slánský trial.
Dec 9, 1970 · The Confession: Directed by Costa-Gavras. With Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti, Michel Vitold. A high-ranking official is forced to confess to high treason.
- (4.8K)
- Drama, Thriller
- Costa-Gavras
- 1970-12-09
The Confession. The master of the political thriller, Costa-Gavras became an instant phenomenon after the mammoth success of Z, and he quickly followed it with the equally riveting The Confession. Based on a harrowing true story from the era of Soviet bloc show trials, the film stars Yves Montand as a Czechoslovak Communist Party official who ...
- Artur London/Gérard
Director Costa-Gavras’ opening, in the follow-up film to his international hit Z, 1969, shows Yves Montand as an official in the Czechoslovakian government who suddenly has reason to believe he’s being targeted by rivals in the security division, in The Confession, 1970.
- Costa-Gavras, Alain Corneau
- Yves Montand
The film is inspired almost entirely by fact, by the memoirs of Artur London, one of the 13 Czech Communist leaders who were indicted as traitors, Trotskyists, Titoists, Zionists or what have you, and one of the three who was not executed.
In 1950s communist Czechoslovakia, a government minister, a war veteran who has long been a loyal party man, leads a relatively comfortable life with wife Lise. However, he soon finds himself ...
- (8)
- Mystery & Thriller
- PG
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A high-ranking official is forced to confess to high treason. Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and jailed in solitary confinement, and tortured mentally during the investigation; will the faithful top-ranking civil servant be driven ...
