Costa-Gavras to Receive Lifetime Honor From Locarno Film Festival


Legendary political director Costa-Gavras (Z, Missing) will receive this year’s

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lifetime achievement award from the Locarno International Film Festival.

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The Greek filmmaker, who has been making social-activist cinema for nearly 60

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years, will be honored at the 75th edition of the Swiss festival on Aug. 11.

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Locarno will also screen two of Costa-Gavras’ early works, that are now rarely seen:

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Shock Troops from 1967 and The Sleeping Car Murders (1965).

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Costa-Gavras is perhaps best known for his political thrillers Z (1969), a look at the Greek military coup of 1967,

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which won the best international feature Oscar in 1970 as well as the Oscar for best editing for Françoise Bonnot,

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and for Missing (1982), a dramatization of the CIA’s involvement in the coup d’état in Chile in 1973,

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