Costa-Gavras' life and career as a filmmaker are like a powerful river that overcomes all obstacles. At 85, while screening a film on the difficult situation of the current strike, the author of Z looks back.
Forced to flee Athens because of his father's anti-royalist positions, he arrived in Paris in 1952 with three francs six sous. His account of the filming of, by Jean Giono, with Fernandel, is particularly moving. The first part of the book is an enchanted journey through the post-war period.