Cycle
From 11.12. To 19.12.2007.
Program of Costa - Gavras' films
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Films in cycle
The Sleeping Car Murders
(Compartiment tueurs, 1965)
Directed by: Costa-Gavras Costa-Gavras
PHOTOGRAPHY: Jean Tournier
Synopsis:
A train leaves from Marseilles and goes to Paris. Upon arrival to its destination a dead girl is found in one of the compartments. The police inspector has five suspects but as time goes by three of them get murdered as well. The remaining two have to find the murderer on their own if they want to stay alive.
b/w, 95 min
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 12.12.2007 AT 21:00
Tuesday 11.12.2007 AT 19:00
Z
(1968)
Directed by: Costa-Gavras Costa-Gavras
PHOTOGRAPHY: Raoul Coutard
Synopsis:
An assassin tries to murder a peace activist while the police simply watch the incident without intervening. The assassins are government sanctioned right-wing activists who are trying to stop a lawsuit that has been filed by a photo reporter after he found a witness and a judge willing to take part in it. In the meantime there is a military coup in the country. The film is based on legal transcripts from 1963 when a Greek pacifist leader Gregoris Lambrakis was allegedly murdered by the govern...
color, 121 min
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 12.12.2007 AT 19:00
Tuesday 11.12.2007 AT 21:00
State of Siege
(État de siege, 1972)
Directed by: Costa-Gavras Costa-Gavras
PHOTOGRAPHY: Pierre-William Glenn
Synopsis:
This film is based on a true story and portrays the kidnapping of an American official in Uruguay in 1970s. The official works for the American Agency for International Development but his real task is to teach the Uruguayan police how to use torture techniques on their political prisoners. His kidnappers are a group of leftist revolutionaries called Tupamaro.
color, 115 min
PROJECTION:
Monday 17.12.2007 AT 19:00
Thursday 13.12.2007 AT 19:00
Womanlight
(Clair de femme, 1979)
Directed by: Costa-Gavras Costa-Gavras
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ricardo Aronovich
Synopsis:
Michel’s wife is terminally ill. Michel and she have agreed that she will take her life on a certain day which soon arrives. Afterwards, Michel should leave France but he cannot bring himself to do it. By chance he meets Lydia, a woman close to his age who lost her daughter a few years ago in a car accident that also left her husband with severe brain damage.
color, 105 min
PROJECTION:
Saturday 15.12.2007 AT 19:00
Thursday 13.12.2007 AT 21:15
Missing
(1982)
Directed by: Costa-Gavras Costa-Gavras
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ricardo Aronovich
Synopsis:
The film was inspired by the story of Charles Horman, an American journalist who went missing during general Pinochet’s bloody coup in Chile in 1973. His father and wife travel to Latin America to find him but instead of hospitality they face a wall of silence and cover-ups.