Costa-Gavras
Costa -Gavras (Greek Κωνσταντίνος Γαβράς or Konstantínos Gavras, born February 12, 1933 Loutra Iraias, Arcadia, Greece ) is a Greek- French film director and screenwriter. He was in the movie business internationally known above all for his award-winning politically engaged work, making a successful up to the present.
Life
Costa -Gavras ' father was a government official who was going on in the embossed by communists resistance against the German occupiers. In 1945 the family moved to Athens, before the father after the outbreak of the Greek civil war in 1946 lost his job.
Costa -Gavras emigrated to France in 1954, after he had received no study place in his homeland. In 1956 he received French citizenship. He began studying Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne in Paris, but learned at the private Film Institute Cinémathèque française know a wide variety of challenging films and moved to the Institute des hautes études cinématographiques. There he earned a diploma in directing and film production. From 1965 he worked as a director. His films usually depict an embossed by political grievances society refers to the Costa -Gavras position. From 1982 to 1987, he already ran the Cinémathèque française, since July 2007, he does so again.
Under his direction, several classics of political activists were filmed (see political thriller ), including Z (Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, 1969), which discusses the background to the establishment of the Greek military dictatorship of the military Junta in the 1960s; The invisible insurrection which has the resistance of the Tupamaros against the supported by the United States military dictatorship in Uruguay on the subject; or Missing ( German title: Missing ), which again, the U.S. commitment to a post-fascist regime picks up critically against the backdrop of the military coup in Chile in 1973.
In many of his films, it avoids Costa -Gavras, the United States, which form the background for its theme, exactly specified to represent on the concrete example also going to be generally valid by the anonymization its social and social criticism.
In 2002 he filmed under the title Amen the play The Deputy by Rolf Hochhuth from 1963 to mobilize the fact-based story of the SS man Kurt Gerstein, who tried from Christian motives, the Catholic church against the Holocaust, after he himself by his scientific contribution to the development of poison gas confidant and conscience loads had become co-responsible for the Holocaust. The film brought Costa -Gavras, together with Jean -Claude Grumberg 2003 César for the movie script. Another César nomination received the filmmakers two years later for satire The ax in the José Garcia is seen as unemployed engineer who is seeking his competitors in the labor market after life.
At the Berlinale Costa -Gavras 2008 was President of the International Jury. In 1990 he was at the Berlin Film Festival for his thriller Music Box - The Whole Truth awarded the Golden Bear.
Costa -Gavras 1968 married his second wife, the former French Mannequin Michèle Ray, who made a name for himself as a journalist and film producer. From the relationship of three children, including Romain Gavras Julie Gavras and that could take as her father both in the movie business foot come.