Costa-Gavras

Born Konstantinos Gavras in 1933 at Klivia in the Peloponnese. During the War, his father had been a member of the Communist-dominated wing of the Resistance and, after the war, was repeatedly imprisoned; the resulting blacklist prevented Costa from attending university, holding a government post, getting a driver's license, or even a visa for the U.S.A. Emigrating to France, he studied at the Sorbonne and at IDHEC, France's top film school, and discovered the… (több)