The Consent

the Consent is a Film French of Costa-Gavras, carried out in 1970.

Synopsis

With Prague, in 1951, a political high ranking official Czechoslovakian finds marked espionage with the profit of the the United States. All is made to extort consents of crimes to him which it did not commit. Broken by torture - one prevents it sleeping and from stopping walking - it ends up acknowledging with the court of the crimes which it did not commit by reciting a text of consents that its torturers made him learn by heart. After its rehabilitation in 1956, he emigrates towards France and, if he condemns Stalinism, there remains faithful to the communist ideal of its youth.

Comment

It is during the assembly of Z , during the dinner of Christmas, that, Claude Lanzmann speaks with Costa-Gavras about Dye stick and Artur London which had been vice-minister of the Foreign affairs of Czechoslovakia and was one of the three survivors of the Procès of Prague which had been held in 1952. Many intellectuals of its generation had been filled with enthusiasm for the Communisme because it seemed to them to open formidable prospects, until, little by little, there is an awakening of the back of the decoration. Yves Montand, former fellow traveller of the Communist party, also adheres to the project and the financings are released thanks to the success of Z .

It was reproached Costa-Gavras for tackling the line (in Z ) then the left, whereas it wanted only to denounce totalitarianisms. Certain people did not forgive him to have raised the veil on the Stalinisme and avoided openly it. The film was a considerable success and became true a phénomème political and cultural which upset its time.

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  • the film finishes on a level showing two young people writing with painting on a wall: “ Lénine, awakes! They became insane. ”

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