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Poster for the movie "Z"
Poster for the movie "Z"

Z (1969)

127 min - Thriller, History, Drama - 26 February 1969
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Amidst a heated political climate, the opposition leader is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. When a magistrate finds evidence of a government cover-up, witnesses start to get targeted. A thinly-fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963, Z captures the outrage about the military junta that ruled Greece at the time.

Director:  Costa-Gavras
Writers:  Costa-Gavras, Jorge Semprún, Ben Barzman
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