Adults in the Room
Behind closed doors, a human tragedy plays out.
A universal theme: a story of people at the mercy of cruel circumstances, trapped in an inhuman network of power.
The pitiless circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded.
A claustrophobic trap with no way out, exerting pressures on the protagonists which finally divide them. A tragedy in the Ancient Greek sense: the characters are not good, or evil, but driven by the consequences of their own conception of what it is right to do.
An Ancient Greek tragedy for our very modern time.
Costa-Gavras
2019, DCP, color, France / Greece, 124’, Dolby Digital
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS & RECOGNITION
- 76th Venice International Film Festival
- 67th San Sebastián International Film Festival
CREDITS
Directed by
Costa-Gavras
Screenplay
Costa-Gavras
Cinematography
Giorgos Arvanitis
Editing
Lambis Haralambidis
Art Director
Spyros Laskaris, Philippe Chiffre
Costume Design
Agis Panagiotou
Cast
Christos Loulis, Alexandros Bourdoumis, Valeria Golino, Ulrich Tukur, Christos Stergioglou, Adrian Frieling, Daan Schuurmans, Colin Stinton, Francesco Acquaroli, Aurélien Recoing
Executive Producer
View Master Films
Production
KG Productions (France)
Co-producers
ODEON, France Télévisions, Wild Bunch
Distribution
ODEON