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The Confession

L'Aveu

1970

In 1950s Communist Czechoslovakia, a loyal party official and war veteran is suddenly placed under surveillance, arrested, and subjected to a grueling campaign to extract a false confession. Costa-Gavras's chilling drama of the Stalinist show trials, based on a true account.

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