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, in the early fifties, is abducted, imprisoned, and interrogated over a frighteningly long period, and left in the dark about his captors’ motives. Also starring Simone Signoret and Gabriele Ferzetti, the film is an unflinching, intimate depiction of one of the twentieth century’s darkest chapters, told from one bewildered man’s point of view.
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Costa-Gavras, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London, a 1970 on-set documentary by set photographer Chris Marker, featuring Costa-Gavras, source book coauthor Artur London, actors Yves Montand and Simone Signoret, and screenwriter Jorge Semprún
- Portrait London, a 1981 French program featuring Artur and Lise London discussing their experiences as political prisoners
- Interview with Montand from 1970
- New interview with editor Françoise Bonnot
- One-hour conversation between Costa-Gavras and film scholar Peter von Bagh from 1998
- New interview with John Michalczyk, author of Costa-Gavras: The Political Fiction Film
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Dina Iordanova
New cover by Adam Maida
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Costa-Gavras, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London, a 1970 on-set documentary by set photographer Chris Marker, featuring Costa-Gavras, source book coauthor Artur London, actors Yves Montand and Simone Signoret, and screenwriter Jorge Semprún
- Portrait London, a 1981 French program featuring Artur and Lise London discussing their experiences as political prisoners
- Interview with Montand from 1970
- New interview with editor Françoise Bonnot
- One-hour conversation between Costa-Gavras and film scholar Peter von Bagh from 1998
- New interview with John Michalczyk, author of Costa-Gavras: The Political Fiction Film
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Dina Iordanova
New cover by Adam Maida
Cast
- Yves Montand
- Artur London/Gérard
- Simone Signoret
- Lise London
- Gabriele Ferzetti
- Kohoutek
- Michel Vitold
- Smola
- Jean Bouise
- Factory boss
Credits
- Director
- Costa-Gavras
- Book by
- Artur London
- Book by
- Lise London
- Adaptation and dialogue
- Jorge Semprún
- Produced by
- Robert Dorfmann
- Produced by
- Bertrand Javal
- Cinematography
- Raoul Coutard
- Editing
- Françoise Bonnot
- Music
- Giovanni Fusco
- Production design
- Bernard Evein
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