FILM DIRECTOR

Costa-Gavras

1933 - Today

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Konstantinos "Kostas" Gavras (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος "Κώστας" Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933), known professionally as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for political films, such as the political thriller Z (1969), which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Missing (1982), for which he won the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Costa-Gavras has received more than 894,696 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Costa-Gavras is the 81st most popular film director (down from 75th in 2019), the 143rd most popular biography from Greece (down from 137th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Greek Film Director.

Costa-gavras is most famous for his political films, most notably "Z," which tells the story of a military coup in Greece, and "Missing," which tells the story of the CIA's involvement in the disappearance of a U.S. citizen.

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  • 890k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Costa-Gavras by language

Over the past year Costa-Gavras has had the most page views in the with 175,857 views, followed by French (122,685), and Spanish (57,263). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Spanish (96.59%), Ido (90.18%), and Latin (76.95%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Costa-Gavras ranks 81 out of 2,041. Before him are Alain Resnais, Sydney Pollack, William Wyler, Elia Kazan, Terry Gilliam, and Franco Zeffirelli. After him are Dario Argento, Carlos Saura, F. W. Murnau, Peter Brook, Fred Zinnemann, and Wolfgang Petersen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Costa-Gavras ranks 34. Before him are Paul Biya, Paul J. Crutzen, Abolhassan Banisadr, Bernardo Provenzano, Kim Novak, and Quincy Jones. After him are Álvaro Siza Vieira, John Barry, Antonio Negri, Gene Wilder, Richard R. Ernst, and Mohammad-Ali Rajai.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Costa-Gavras ranks 143 out of 1,024. Before him are Antipope Alexander V (1339), Tyrtaeus (-700), Pope Hyginus (100), Andronicus of Rhodes (-100), Pope Eleutherius (171), and Saint Giles (640). After him are Ioannis Kapodistrias (1776), Georgios Papadopoulos (1919), Ephialtes of Trachis (-550), Sophia Palaiologina (1455), Gülnuş Sultan (1642), and Djemal Pasha (1872).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Greece

Among film directors born in Greece, Costa-Gavras ranks 2. Before him are Theo Angelopoulos (1935). After him are Yorgos Lanthimos (1973), Şerif Gören (1944), Nikos Koundouros (1926), Athina Rachel Tsangari (1966), and Phedon Papamichael (1962).

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Filmography

Z
Director
Amidst a heated political climate, the opposition leader is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. When a magistrate finds evidence of a government cover-up, witnesses start to get targeted. A thinly-fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963, Z captures the outrage about the military junta that ruled Greece at the time.
Feb 26o 19697.888 / 10
Missing
Director
Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the dictatorship.
Feb 12o 19827.3 / 10
Amen.
Director
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that the process he used to purify water for his troops by using Zyklon-B, is now used to kill people in gas chambers.
Feb 27o 20027 / 10