Konstantinos Gavras, known as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French director and screenwriter, considered one of the leading figures of political cinema. His career gained international recognition with *Z* (1969), a thriller about the dictatorship of the colonels in Greece, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. In his works, he has consistently explored themes such as abuse of power, repression, and injustice, as demonstrated by his subsequent films *The Confession* (1970) and *State of Siege* (1972). His success was consolidated by *Missing* (1982), a film about the Chilean coup d'état, which earned him the Palme d'Or at Cannes and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Other significant awards in his filmography include the Golden Bear in Berlin for *Music Box* (1989) and the César Award for Best Screenplay for *Amen.* (2002). His style combines the suspense of the thriller genre with a rigorous investigation of the facts, making his cinema a powerful tool for social critique.