The Confession (Record no. 9232)
[ view plain ]
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
|---|---|
| control field | 20170424110910.0 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Costa-Gavras |
| 9 (RLIN) | 18389 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Confession |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | France |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Crystal Films |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 1970 |
| 306 ## - PLAYING TIME | |
| Playing time | 135 minutes |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The film is about Artur Ludvik, alias Gerard, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is being watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and put into jail by an organisation that declares itself "above the ruling party" and put in solitary confinement for months without being told the reason why. Through brainwashing techniques, including sleep deprivation and being forced to walk back and forth all the time, he is slowly pressured into confessing imaginary crimes, including treason, and to repeat this confession in a public court. Years later, he meets his now demoted tormentor, who tries to downplay his role at that time. Yves Montand lost more than 15 kilograms to play his role. Montand had been shaken by the 1956 events in Hungary and later said of the film: "There was in what I inflicted upon myself [for this role] something of an act of expiation." |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | English, France |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Yves Montand, Simone Signoret |
| 9 (RLIN) | 18390 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | |
| Koha item type | Digital Video Disk |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Permanent Location | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Available | Not Damaged | BardBerlinLibrary | BardBerlinLibrary | Circulation Office | 2017-04-23 | Cos L'Av 1970 | 0017631 | 2017-04-23 | 2017-04-23 | Digital Video Disk |