Despite being in Madrid, Costa-Gavras (Loutra-Iraias, 1933) has not been alien to the dynamics of Sant Jordi during the promotion in Spain ofThe last breath (The last souffle (in the original version), his latest film about death with dignity, which premieres this Friday. The Greek film director – French by adoption – turns to his friend Jorge Semprún, who died in Paris in 2011, when choosing a literary recommendation. The long journey It is the testimony of an era marked by totalitarianism, one of the great themes of the filmmaker's filmography, which he addressed in collaboration with the Spanish writer and politician in films such as Z (1969) or The confession (1970). "Semprún and I had started to think about a film about the Spanish Civil War. Unfortunately, he fell ill," he recalled this Wednesday.