THE CONFESSION
| 1970 – 120′ – Drama, Thriller, Period & History, Classic .
Written by: Jorge Semprún
Based on the Book by: Artur and Lise London.
Directed by: Costa-Gavras.
Starring: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Michel Vitold, Gabriele Ferzetti, Jean Bouise, Lajos Szabo, Gérard Darrieu, Monique Chaumette, Michel Robin, Antoine Vitez.
In French with English subtitles.
A Paramount release. |
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.