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Konstantinos "Kostas" Gavras (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος "Κώστας" Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933), known professionally as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France.
Costa-Gavras is a Greek-born director and writer of political thrillers, such as Z, Missing and Amen. He has won an Oscar and many other awards for his work. See his full credits, photos, videos and trivia on IMDb.
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Mar 28, 2024 · Costa-Gavras (born February 12, 1933, Loutra-Iraias, Greece) is a Greek-born naturalized French motion-picture director noted for films that have been both political arguments and entertainments (usually as mysteries or thrillers).
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Konstantinos " Kostas " Gavras ( Greek: Κωνσταντίνος "Κώστας" Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933), known professionally as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France.
Costa-Gavras’s 1969 political assassination thriller Z appeared at the end of a decade of burgeoning cultural change and rampant paranoia. In the United States, this Algerian-French coproduction sparked a sensation, not just relaying the European p…
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Apr 3, 2009 · As a conservative American (played by Jack Lemmon) searches for his disappeared son, the journalist Charles Horman, he is confronted by the depth of his country's collusion in Pinochet's coup ...
Jun 8, 2022 · Greek-French master of political dramas Costa Gavras is set to receive the Locarno Film Festival's Pardo alla Carriera career honor.
