There's Always a Point of View: AN INTERVIEW WITH COSTA-GAVRAS

• Published in: Cinéaste (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 16; no. 4; pp. 18 - 21
• Main Author: Georgakas, Dan
• Format: Magazine Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Cineaste Publishers, Inc 01-01-1988; Cinéaste
• Subjects: Audiences; Film archives; Film criticism; INTERVIEWS; Jewish people; Motion picture directors & producers; Motion picture industry; Movies; Nazism; Screenwriting; Talk show hosts; White supremacist movements
• ISSN: 0009-7004; 2641-9238

Cineaste first interviewed Costa-Gavras in 1969 when he was in the United States to publicize Z. Since that time he has directed some of the most important political films of our time, dealing with the Czech purge trials in The Confession (1970), the Tupamaro urban guerrilla movement in State of Siege (1973), and the counterrevolution in Chile in Missing (1982). A longer version of this interview with far more detailed comments on Costa-Gavras's relationship to Greek cinema is available in Aegean Review #2, 220 West 19th St., Suite 2A, New York, NY 10011. Perhaps because it essentially consisted of foreigners to begin with - Central European Jews who arrived as refugees before World War I. Also, to be French and to work in the cinema means you are much more open-minded than the simple bourgeois behind his desk. Cineaste: I've been told that the film deals with how the FBI infiltrates a right wing hate group that has assassinated a Jewish talk show host.