Costa-Gavras
Konstantinos "Kostas" Gavras, known professionally as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for political films, such as the political thriller Z (1969), which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Missing (1982), for which he won the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Most of his films have been made in French, but six have been in English, including Hanna K.
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Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien
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2026
La scripte
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2026
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
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2026
Before What Comes After
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2025
Before What Comes After
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2025
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
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2022
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
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2022
Les Grands Créateurs de Cinéma : René Clément
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2022
The Méliès Mystery
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2021
Adults in the Room
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2019
Adults in the Room
director
2019
Cannes 1968, révolution au palais
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2018
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
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2014
What Is Cinema?
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2013
Ain't Misbehavin
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2013
Affection to the People
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2013
Capital
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2012
Capital
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2012
The Extraordinary Voyage
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2011
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
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2009
Eden Is West
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2009
Eden Is West
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2009
The Ax
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2005
The Ax
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2005
Chaplin Today: The Great Dictator
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2003
Amen.
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2002
Amen.
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2002
Mad City
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1997
The Stupids
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1996
Lumière & Company
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1995
Concerning Nice
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1995
Lest We Forget
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1991
Music Box
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1989
Betrayed
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1988
Bette Davis at the Cinémathèque Française
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1986
Hanna K.
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1983
Hanna K.
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1983
Missing
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1982
Missing
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1982
Womanlight
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1979
Womanlight
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1979
Madame Rosa
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1977
Mr. Klein
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1976
Special Section
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1975
Special Section
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1975
Les Deux mémoires
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1974
State of Siege
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1972
State of Siege
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1972
The Confession
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1970
Z
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1969
Z
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1969
The Sleeping Car Murders
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1965
The Sleeping Car Murders
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1965