A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
April 23, 1975
Original Title:
Section spéciale
Alternate Titles:
L'affare della sezione speciale
Sessão Especial de Justiça
Sondertribunal - Jeder kämpft für sich allein
Special Section
Genres:
Drama | History | Thriller
Production Companies:
Goriz Films
Janus Film und Fernsehen
K.G. Productions
Les Productions Artistes Associés
Reggane Films
Production Countries:
France | Germany | Italy
Ratings / Certifications:
FR: U
Runtime: 118
In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.
Associate Producer:
Claude Heymann
Costume Design:
Hélène Nourry
Director:
Costa-Gavras
Director of Photography:
Andréas Winding
Editor:
Françoise Bonnot
Executive Producer:
Gérard Crosnier
Novel:
Hervé Villeré
Original Music Composer:
Éric Demarsan
Producer:
Michèle Ray-Gavras
Giorgio Silvagni
Jacques Perrin
Costa-Gavras
Set Decoration:
Max Douy
Writer:
Jorge Semprún
Costa-Gavras
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.