Konstantinos Gavras (born 12 February 1933), known professionally as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek filmmaker, who lives and works in France. He is best known for directing films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller “Z†(1969). Most of his movies were made in French, though starting with “Missing†(1982), several were made in English.
Costa-Gavras Biography / Wiki
| Name | Costa-Gavras |
| Also Know | Costa Gavras, Κώστας ΓαβÏάς, Constantin Costa-Gavras, KonstantÃnos Gavrás, ç§‘æ–¯å¡”Â·åŠ å¤«æ‹‰æ–¯, KÄ“sÄ« tǎ·jiÄ fÅ« lÄ sÄ«, コスタï¼ã‚¬ãƒ´ãƒ©ã‚¹, Kosuta = gavurasu, Konstantinos Gavras, Κωνσταντίνος ΓαβÏάς |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Loutra-Iraias, Greece |
| Date of Birth | 1933-02-12 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 89 |
| Deathday |
Costa-Gavras Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Extraordinary Voyage | Self – Filmmaker | 2011-12-08 | An account of the extraordinary life of film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) and the amazing story of the copy in color of his masterpiece “A T… |
| Chaplin Today: The Great Dictator | Self | 2003-12-30 | A short documentary about the making of The Great Dictator…. |
| A Sore Spot | Self | 2017-10-12 | By approaching the financial system and its contradictions, the film raises questions about one of the main discourses of the financial authorities: t… |
| Jean Gabin, une âme française | Self | 2015-12-25 | … |
| Rush – Voyage à Moscou | Lui-même | 1990-02-03 | A document of Perestroika, to be viewed as (nearly) unedited rushes of a voyage to Moscow, preserved by compatriot Costa-Gavras. Says Émilie Cauquy o… |
| Ain’t Misbehavin | Self | 2013-05-16 | 18 years after his last film, (The Troubles We’ve Seen), Marcel Ophuls emerges from retirement as one of our last masters, the most corrosive, the fun… |
| Martin Scorsese Par Martin Scorsese | Self | 2015-10-14 | … |
| Armin Mueller-Stahl – Ein Gaukler in Hollywood | Self | 2021-08-02 | … |
| Jean-Louis Trintignant, pourquoi que je vis | Self | 2012-05-21 | … |
| Looking for Athènes | Self | 2013-12-09 | … |
| Yves Montand, l’ombre au tableau | Self | 2016-05-15 | … |
| You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London | Self – Interviewee | 1971-06-15 | Artur London was arrested in 1951 in a Stalinist purge, imprisoned and tortured for two years and forced to confess in the Slansky Trial, one of the l… |
| Citizen Rosi | Self | 2019-11-18 | The narrative wanders through Rosi’s films, not in the order they were shot but following the chronology of the historical facts they deal with. The… |
| The Méliès Mystery | Self | 2021-01-02 | A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated by a Franco-Am… |
| Cinéma Jacques Perrin | Self | 2014-12-31 | … |
| What Is Cinema? | Self | 2013-09-06 | Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, Da… |
| They Saw Inferno | Self | 2010-04-12 | A wonderful documentary that sheds additional light on the fascinating project ‘Inferno’ was, as well as how those who were involved with it react… |
| The Legend of the Ugly King | Self | 2018-10-11 | Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker — who dire… |
| Les Deux mémoires | Self | 1974-02-27 | The two memories… |
| Searching for Mr. Rugoff | Self | 2019-11-08 | The feature documentary Searching for Mr. Rugoff is the story of Donald Rugoff, who was the crazy genius behind Cinema 5, the mid-century theater chai… |
| Henri Langlois vu par… | Self | 2014-01-01 | Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him…. |
| Film, the Living Record of our Memory | Self | 2021-10-21 | Why are we still able, today, to view images that were captured over 125 years ago? As we enter the digital age, audiovisual heritage seems to be a su… |
| Entangling Shadows | Self | 1998-06-02 | Documentary that celebrates 100 years of cinema in Latin America and talks about the origins and the development of cinema in this subcontinent. Its s… |
| Affection to the People | Self | 2013-04-12 | A documentary about cinema censorship during the dictatorship in Greece (1967- 1974), based on never-before-seen state archives. The film includes cli… |
| Madame Rosa | Le docteur Ramon | 1977-11-02 | Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she’s a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of ot… |
| CrÃtico | Self | 2008-01-28 | Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 20… |
| Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | Self – Filmmaker | 2014-12-12 | The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter,… |
| The Stupids | Gas Station Attendant | 1996-08-08 | An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their “stolen” garbage…. |
| Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno | Self – Interviewee | 2009-10-01 | In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s production of L’Enfer came to a halt. Despite huge expectations, major studio backing and an unlimited budget, after … |
| Romy: 40 ans après, ultimes confidences | 2022-05-24 | To honour the 40th anniversary of her death, multiple personalities share their feelings and thoughts about the life and career of the fabulous and bo… | |
| Spies Like Us | Tadzhik Highway Patrolman | 1985-12-06 | Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war…. |
| Burke & Hare | French Family | 2010-10-29 | Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist…. |
Costa-Gavras Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Music Box | Director | 1989-12-22 | A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects…. |
| Z | Director | 1969-02-26 | Repression is the rule of the day in this film that skewers Greek governance of the 1960s. Z, a leftist rabble rouser, is killed in what appears to be… |
| The Sleeping Car Murder | Director | 1965-11-17 | Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead… |
| Womanlight | Director | 1979-08-29 | Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship…. |
| Betrayed | Director | 1988-08-26 | An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist…. |
| Amen. | Director | 2002-02-13 | Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn … |
| Mad City | Director | 1997-11-07 | A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad…. |
| The Ax | Director | 2005-03-02 | A chemist loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition…. |
| Eden Is West | Director | 2009-02-11 | Desperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided by… |
| The Confession | Director | 1970-04-29 | The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he’s being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement… |
| Missing | Director | 1982-02-12 | Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his s… |
| Family Council | Director | 1986-03-19 | French rocker Johnny Halliday stars as a professional thief just released from jail. He returns to stealing to support his family. After several succe… |
| Hanna K. | Director | 1983-09-07 | Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, who was born in the United Sta… |
| Lumière and Company | Director | 1995-12-20 | 40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditio… |
| Against Oblivion | Director | 1991-12-11 | Contre l’Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea … |
| State of Siege | Director | 1972-12-30 | Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay’s government… |
| Special Section | Director | 1975-04-23 | In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty crimina… |
| Capital | Director | 2012-11-14 | The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out…. |
| The Little Apocalypse | Director | 1993-02-10 | In this cynical comedy, an renowned, out-of-work, unpublished “underground†writer from formerly Communist Poland is driven to unusually desperate… |
| Shock Troops | Director | 1967-04-05 | A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is s… |
| A Monkey in Winter | Assistant Director | 1962-05-11 | The story of a man who has stopped drinking- and then dreaming- and who thanks to a young man who tries to forget a lost love in alcohol will turn dru… |
| À propos de Nice, la suite | Director | 1995-09-13 | Anthology of short films about the French city of Nice, by various directors. A homage to Jean Vigo and his “À propos de Nice” from 1930…. |
| Adults in the Room | Director | 2019-10-03 | A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dic… |
| Henri Langlois vu par… | Director | 2014-01-01 | Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him…. |
| Joy House | Assistant Director | 1964-06-12 | A small-time con man on the run from the gangster-husband of his girlfriend hides out in a strange, brooding mansion run by two mysterious women, wher… |
| The Day and the Hour | Assistant Director | 1963-04-05 | It’s the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren’t running from the village where she has gone to visit her fat… |
| Et avec la Lumière et la Mort sans cesse | Director | 1994-01-01 | … |
| Les Ratés | Director | 1958-01-01 | A 1958 French language short film written and directed by Costa-Gavras, starring Guy Mairesse, Paniaras and Jean Patrick…. |
Costa-Gavras Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Tea in the Harem | Producer | 1985-04-30 | The story of two youths – one Algerian, one French – who become juvenile delinquents in a Paris suburb…. |
| Special Section | Producer | 1975-04-23 | In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty crimina… |
| Eden Is West | Producer | 2009-02-11 | Desperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided by… |
| I Still Hide to Smoke | Producer | 2017-04-26 | Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian hammam to talk about their lives…. |
| The Ax | Producer | A remake of the 2005 film with the same name. After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his… | |
| The Colonel | Producer | 2006-11-15 | A “Reformed Colonel” is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria’s struggle for independence was won from France. Lieutenant Galois is a… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Amen. | Screenplay | 2002-02-13 | Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn … |
| Missing | Writer | 1982-02-12 | Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his s… |
| Hanna K. | Writer | 1983-09-07 | Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, who was born in the United Sta… |
| State of Siege | Scenario Writer | 1972-12-30 | Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay’s government… |
| Capital | Screenplay | 2012-11-14 | The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out…. |
| Shock Troops | Writer | 1967-04-05 | A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is s… |
| The Sleeping Car Murder | Writer | 1965-11-17 | Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead… |
| Special Section | Writer | 1975-04-23 | In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty crimina… |
| Eden Is West | Writer | 2009-02-11 | Desperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided by… |
| Adults in the Room | Writer | 2019-10-03 | A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dic… |
| Family Council | Screenplay | 1986-03-19 | French rocker Johnny Halliday stars as a professional thief just released from jail. He returns to stealing to support his family. After several succe… |
| Adults in the Room | Screenplay | 2019-10-03 | A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dic… |
| Mr. Klein | Co-Writer | 1976-09-23 | Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly p… |
| Womanlight | Writer | 1979-08-29 | Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship…. |
| The Ax | Screenplay | 2005-03-02 | A chemist loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition…. |
| Les Ratés | Writer | 1958-01-01 | A 1958 French language short film written and directed by Costa-Gavras, starring Guy Mairesse, Paniaras and Jean Patrick…. |
| Les Ratés | Screenplay | 1958-01-01 | A 1958 French language short film written and directed by Costa-Gavras, starring Guy Mairesse, Paniaras and Jean Patrick…. |
| The Colonel | Story | 2006-11-15 | A “Reformed Colonel” is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria’s struggle for independence was won from France. Lieutenant Galois is a… |
| Z | Writer | 1969-02-26 | Repression is the rule of the day in this film that skewers Greek governance of the 1960s. Z, a leftist rabble rouser, is killed in what appears to be… |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Adults in the Room | Editor | 2019-10-03 | A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dic… |
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