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The Confession = L'aveu
Title
The Confession = L'aveu / adaptation et dialogue de Jorge Semprun ; produit par Robert Dorfman et Bertrand Javal ; réalisation de Costa-Gavras ; Les films Corona ; Les films Pomereu - Paris ; Fono - Roma ; Selenia Cinematografica - Roma.
ISBN
9781604659818
1604659815
Edition
Director approved two-DVD special edition.
Publication
[Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2015]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert.
Medium
DVD video 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Based on the account by Lise and Artur London.
Restored in 2014 by KG Productions.
Special features: New 2K digital restoration. Disc 2: You speak of Prague: The second trial of Artur London (a twenty-one minute on-set documentary by Chris Marker, aired on French television March 5, 1970); Costa-Gavras at the Midnight Sun Film Festival (conversation between the director and film scholar Peter von Bagh recorded at the 1998 Midnight Sun Film Festival in Sodankylä, Finland); Portrait London (a 1981 interview with Artur and Lise London, originally broadcast on French television on January 21, 1981); Yves Montand (7 minute interview with the actor on the making of the film and how he prepared for the role, aired on French television on May 10, 1970); Françoise Bonnot (17 minute interview with the film's editor on working with the director); John Michalczyk (7 minute interview with the author of Costa-Gavras: The Political Fiction Film). Insert includes an essay by film scholar Dina Iordanova.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1970.
Director of photography, Raoul Coutard ; editor, Françoise Bonnot ; production designer, Bernard Evein ; music, Giovanni Fusco.
French dialogue; optional English subtitles.
Summary
Based on a harrowing true story, the film presents the history of an influential Czechoslovak dignitary who, in the early fifties, was abducted, imprisoned, and interrogated by fellow members of his country's Communist ruling party, their intentions vague, their methods terrifying.
Variant and related titles
L'aveu
Title from English language subtitles: Confession
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
French
Added to Catalog
February 15, 2018
Series
The Criterion Collection ; 759
Credits
Director of photography, Raoul Coutard ; editor, Françoise Bonnot ; production designer, Bernard Evein ; music, Giovanni Fusco.
Cast
Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti, Michel Vitold.
System details note
DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; mono.
Contents
disc one. [Feature film]
disc two. [Special features].
Videorecording number
CC2473DDVD The Criterion Collection
CC2473D The Criterion Collection
CC2473D-1 The Criterion Collection
CC2473D-2 The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Film adaptations.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Biographical films.
Historical films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
Feature films - France.
Feature films - Italy.
Foreign language films - French.
French language films.
Motion pictures - France.
Motion pictures - Italy.
Biographical films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Film adaptations.
Historical films.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Motion pictures - France.
Motion pictures - Italy.
Also listed under
Films Corona, production company.
Films Pomereu, production company.
Fono Roma (Firm), production company.
Selenia Cinematografica (Firm), production company.
K.G. Productions (Firm), restorationist (expression)
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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