The Confession

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Maai K @RT01498558 Oct 8, 2025 A powerful film about purges. Yves Montand gives a strong performance. See more Nicolas M @RT06260087 Nov 8, 2023 A well acted and compelling lens on the Stalinist show trials, but it fails morally by disconnecting the trials from the barbaric history of global communism. That is a remarkable failing given the events in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany (among others) decades after Stalin's death and not unknown to the director and cast. See more Jan 3, 2020 The split between Tito and Stalin (1948), in the late 1940s and early 1950s, was followed by show trials of prominent Communists all over Eastern Europe and the wave of Stalinist purges in which tens of thousands suffered or lost their lives. This movie is about the 1952 process in Prague, conducted against Rudolf Slánský and 13 other leading members of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ). The main protagonist - Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is based on Arthur London, veteran of the Spanish Civil War and the French resistance movement, who, at the time of the arrest, was vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia and a senior official of KSČ. Display of Stalinist torture and interrogation process in preparation for rigged political trial is very realistic. Based on actual events. See more andres s @RT93190512 Nov 2, 2017 A very tough subject material to watch but a very important one at that. Seeing how conniving and evil parties can be just to get the information they want to hear out of someone, even if it isn't true, is a very frustrating but interesting thing to watch. And what's even more noteworthy, is that this really happens is still happening. Torture tactics and secret confession trials. The only problem I have is tat the movie could have been reasonably shorter. It felt like the confessions and the talking went on and on with no end. And being that this is a Costa-Gavras film, he probably did it intentionally to make the viewer uneasy. Well, it worked. Overall, very powerful political movie about construing the truth through confessions. Remarkable and pretty important film. See more Apr 1, 2017 A set of counter-truth emerged from their historical contexts. Not a word about McChartism that raged in the United States at the same time. Costa Gavras, convincing when he denounces fascism and racism, deceives in a doubtful film of American propaganda. Pity. See more Sep 20, 2016 The Confession is an exquisitely crafted dissection of political disintegration and anti-Semitism, using brilliant Gavras-style editing, a great Yves Montana and Simone Sigornet, and dark, murky sets to their fullest emotional potential and ultimately unsettle, thrill, and frustrate the audience. See more Read all reviews

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