DVD
The confession
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Languages
In French, with English subtitles.
Performers
Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti, Michel Vitold, Jean Bouise.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2015]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (138 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
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. The film is an unflinching, intitmate depiction of one of the twentieth century's darkest chapters, told from one bewildered man's point of view.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1970.
Special features: New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Costa-Gavras ; You speak of Prague: the second trial of Artur London, a 1970 on-set documentary by set photographer Chris Marker, featuring Costa-Gavras, sourcebook coauthor Artur London, actors Yves Montand and Simone Signoret, and screenwriter Jorge Semprun ; 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 1988 ; new interview with John Michalczyk, author of Costa-Gavras: the political fiction film ; new English subtitle translation.