Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures vii
4. Notes on contributors viii
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 Creating a major film season at HOME 4
8. 2 France, May ’68 and the development of the political thriller 19
9. 3 Costa- Gavras, Jorge Semprún and Yves Montand 30
10. 4 State of Siege (État de siège), Costa-Gavras, 1973 39
11. 5 L’Attentat (Plot), Yves Boisset, 1972 49
12. 6 Special Section (Section spéciale), Costa-Gavras, 1975 59
13. 7 The political thriller in the context of Italian cinema 71
14. 8 Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion (Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto), Elio Petri, 1970 83
15. 9 Killer Cop (La polizia ha le mani legate), Luciano Ercoli, 1975 92
16. 10 West Germany 100
17. 11 Neither intentional nor accidental, but unavoidable 109
18. 12 Where the political thriller was less prevalent 118
19. 13 Operación Ogro (Ogro), Gillo Pontecorvo, 1979 127
20. 14 Die Flucht (The Flight), Roland Gräf, 1977 136
21. 15 Days of ’36 (Meres tou ’36), Theo Angelopoulos, 1972 148
22. 16 Who is the man on the roof? 157
23. 17 The legacy of the 1970s European political thriller 167
24. 18 The season 178
25. Index 190