The Confession

Prague, ca. 1948, government official Gerard (Yves Montand), a veteran European socialist arrested in a communist party power struggle, is being processed into captivity, in director Costa-Gavras' The Confession, 1970.

Director Costa-Gavras’ opening, in the follow-up film to his international hit Z, 1969, shows Yves Montand as an official in the Czechoslovakian government who suddenly has reason to believe he’s being targeted by rivals in the security division, in The Confession, 1970.

The first substantial scene for Simone Signoret, as Lise, wife of Gerard (Yves Montand, Signoret’s real-life husband), a Czechoslovakian government official and veteran socialist who, she learns, has been arrested in a party purge, in director Costa-Gavras’ fact-based The Confession, 1970.