Behind closed doors, a human tragedy plays out. A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic trap with no way out, exerting pressures on the protagonists which finally divide them. A tragedy in the ancient Greek sense: the characters are not good, or evil, but driven by the consequences of their own conception of what it is right to do. A tragedy for our very modern time.
Costa-Gavras (Loutra-Iraias, Greece. 1933) studied Literature at the Sorbonne and Filmmaking at the IDHEC. After graduating, he worked as an assistant to directors including René Clair, René Clement, Jacques Demy, Marcel Ophüls and Jean Becker. In 1965 he directed his first feature film, Compartiment Tueurs (The Sleeping Car Murders). Outstanding among his politically committed films are Z (1969), winner of the Best Film in a Foreign Language and Best Editing Academy Awards and of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, Missing (1981), Best Screenplay Academy Award and Golden Palm at Cannes, Music Box (1989), Golden Bear at Berlin, and Amen (2002), César for Best Screenplay. In 2012 he competed in San Sebastian Festival’s Official Selection with Le capital (Capital). He has been the president of the Cinémathèque Française since 2007.