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100			_aCosta-Gavras _918389
245			_aThe Confession
260			_aFrance _bCrystal Films _c1970
306			_a135 minutes
500			_a
520			_aThe 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			_aEnglish, France
700			_aYves Montand, Simone Signoret _918390
942			_2ddc _cDVD
999			_c9232 _d9232