[R-G] Costa-Gavras And The Z-To-Amen Of Political Cinema

[Anthony Fenton]

Costa-Gavras And The Z-To-Amen Of Political Cinema

by Peter Byrne

(Swans - June 1, 2009)   Constantin Costa-Gavras is a long-jawed  
Greek, gaunt and gray now at seventy-six. In April he came along with  
seventeen of his films to Lecce in Italy and the Tenth Festival of  
European Cinema.* His face lit up with surprise and pleasure when a  
fan told him of the entry in Wikepedia for the Greek military junta of  
1967-1974. The French poster for Costa-Gavras's 1969 film Z serves as  
illustration for the article. His take on the colonels and their coup  
d'état has apparently achieved wide acceptance. Cinema has, in a  
sense, made history.

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