Costa Gavras was born in Arcadia, Greece (1933). He studied Literature at Sorbonne and cinema at the French national film school IDHEC. He work as director assistant for Jean Giono and René Clair before directing his first film The Sleeping Car Murders (1965). He has been established with a variety of political thrillers that revealed the violent face of dictatorial regimes winning the Best Foreign Language Film's Oscar for Z (1969), the Oscar for Screenplay & the Golden Glove for Missing (1982) and Cannes Film Festival for Special Section (1975).
Filmography
1958 Les Rates
1965 Compartiment Tueurs
1967 Un home de trop
1969 Z
1970 L’Aveu
1973 État de Siege
1975 Section spéciale
1979 Clair de femme
1982 Missing
1983 Hanna K
1986 Conseil de Famille
1988 Betrayed
1990 Music Box
1991 Contre l’oubli
1993 La Petite apocalypse
1995 À propos de Nice, la suite
1997 Mad City
2002 Amen
2005 Le Couperet
2009 Eden Is West
2019 Adults in the Room
