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Costa-Gavras
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Costa-Gavras (short for Konstantinos Gavras; Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933) is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for films with political and social themes, such as the political thriller Z (1969), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Missing (1982), for which he won the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Most of his films have been made in French; however, six of them were made in English. His film Z was the first film, and one of the few, to be nominated for both the Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film.
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Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Les Grands Créateurs de Cinéma : René Clément
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Ein Gaukler in Hollywood
Citizen Rosi
Searching for Mr. Rugoff
A Sore Spot
The Legend of the Ugly King
My Story Is Not Yet Written
Martin Scorsese Par Martin Scorsese
Affection to the People
What Is Cinema?
Il était une fois... « La Haine »
The Extraordinary Voyage
They Saw Inferno
Entangling Shadows
Bette Davis at the Cinémathèque Française
Madame Rosa
Les Deux mémoires
