L'aveu = The confession / adaptation et dialogue de Jorge Semprun ; produit par Robert Dorfman et Bertrand Javal ; réalisation de Costa-Gavras ; Les films Corona ; Les films Pomereu ; Fono ; Selenia Cinematografica.
Edition:
Director approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert.
Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti, Michel Vitold. Based on the account by Artur London and Lise London. Originally released as a motion picture in 1970. New 2K digital restoration done in 2014 by KG Productions. Widescreen (1.66:1). Special features: Your speak of Prague: the second trail of Arthur London (1971), a twenty-one-minute documentary by Chris Marker shot on the set of "The confession"; New interview with the film's editor, Françoise Bonnot; Conversation between director Costa-Gavras and programmer and scholar Peter von Bagh about the director's life and career, from the 1988 Midnight Sun Festival; Portrait London, a 1981 interview with Artur and Lise London, the real-life figures on whose story the film is based; Interview with actor Yves Montand from 1970; New interview with John Michalczyk, author of Costa-Gavras: the political fiction film; Plus: an essay by film scholar Dina Iordanova.
Summary:
The master of the political thriller became an instant phenomenon after the mammoth success of Z, and he quickly followed it with the perhaps even more riveting. Based on a harrowing true story, influential Czechoslovak dignitary who, in the early fifties, was abducted, imprisoned, and interrogated by fellow members of his country₂s Communist ruling party, their intentions vague, their methods terrifying.
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