McRobbie’s Choice Series: The Confession/L’aveu

In 1950s communist Czechoslovakia, a government minister (Yves Montand), a war veteran who has long been a loyal party man, leads a relatively comfortable life with wife Lise (Montand’s real-life spouse Simone Signoret). However, he soon finds himself under surveillance, then under arrest. He has no idea what his offense is, but agents for the totalitarian regime interrogate and torture him, aiming to use their unending power to gain a false confession for supposed crimes against the state. [139 min; thriller, drama; French and Spanish with English subtitles]