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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.
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- 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
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.
After months of torture conducted by secret policemen Smola and Kohoutek, Gérard is persuaded to confess to false charges for the sake of party loyalty. With 13 codefendants, 11 of whom are also Jewish, Gérard stands trial; all make false confessions because of absolute allegiance to the party.
- Costa-Gavras, Alain Corneau
- Yves Montand
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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 ...
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