The Confession

Z brought director Costa-Gavras to the public's eye and THE CONFESSION was a respectable follow-up in what has become a career of politically aware movies such as STATE OF SIEGE, SPECIAL SECTION, and MISSING. THE CONFESSION is a searing indictment of the excesses of Stalinism. This film begins in 1951 when Montand is an East European Communist official who notices that he's being followed. During the Spanish Civil War, he had been a Loyalist. He mentions his fears to some friends who also served that cause and they admit that they too are being watched. He is soon arrested and taken to a makeshift jail. His wife, Signoret (in reel and real life), is not told his wh...