Costa-Gavras

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1933-02-12 (92 years old)

Place of Birth

Loutra-Iraias, Greece

Costa-Gavras

Biography

Konstantinos "Kostas" Gavras (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος "Κώστας" Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933), known professionally as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for political films, such as the political thriller Z (1969), which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Missing (1982), for which he won the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Most of his films have been made in French, but six have been in English, including Hanna K.. Description above from the Wikipedia article Costa-Gavras, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of con...

Acting

2011

The Extraordinary Voyage

as Self - Filmmaker

2013

2017

2016

2013

1996

The Stupids

as Gas Station Attendant

1985

Spies Like Us

as Tadzhik Highway Patrolman

2017

2010

Burke & Hare

as French Family

2008

Critic

as Self

2019

2009

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno

as Self - Interviewee

2010

1977

Madame Rosa

as Le docteur Ramon

Production

1969

Z

as Director

1989

Music Box

as Director

1979

Womanlight

as Director

1988

Betrayed

as Director

2002

Amen.

as Director

2002

Amen.

as Screenplay

1997

Mad City

as Director

2005

The Ax

as Director

2009

Eden Is West

as Director

1970

The Confession

as Director

1986

Family Business

as Director

1983

Hanna K.

as Director

1983

Hanna K.

as Writer

1982

Missing

as Director

1995

1991

Against Oblivion

as Director

1972

State of Siege

as Director

1972

State of Siege

as Scenario Writer

1985

Tea in the Harem

as Producer

1975

Special Section

as Director

2012

Capital

as Director

2012

Capital

as Screenplay

1963

The Day and the Hour

as Assistant Director

2005

The Ax

as Screenplay

2006

The Colonel

as Story

2006

The Colonel

as Producer

1993

1969

Z

as Writer

1958

Les Ratés

as Writer

1958

Les Ratés

as Screenplay

1958

Les Ratés

as Director

1967

Shock Troops

as Director

1967

Shock Troops

as Writer

1960

Croesus

as Assistant Director

1964

Backfire

as Assistant Director

1962

A Monkey in Winter

as Assistant Director

1995

Concerning Nice

as Director

1975

1975

Special Section

as Producer

2003

Parthénon

as Director

1963

Bay of Angels

as Assistant Director

2025

The Last Breath

as Director

2025

The Last Breath

as Screenplay

2009

Eden Is West

as Writer

2009

Eden Is West

as Producer

1982

Missing

as Screenplay

2025

The Last Breath

as Producer

2025

2019

2019

1986

Family Business

as Screenplay

2019

Adults in the Room

as Screenplay

2019

1979

Womanlight

as Writer

1976

Mr. Klein

as Co-Writer

2017

1964

Joy House

as Assistant Director

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