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Z
Directed by
Costa-Gavras
Not Rated
1969
2h 7m
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8.1
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The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.
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Cast of Z
Yves Montand
The Deputy, a doctor
Irene Papas
Hélène, wife of the Deputy
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Examining Magistrate
Jacques Perrin
Photojournalist
Charles Denner
Manuel, friend of the Deputy, lawyer
François Périer
Public Prosecutor
Bernard Fresson
Matt, friend of the Deputy, lawyer
Pierre Dux
Gendarmerie General Missou
Georges Géret
Nick
Magali Noël
Nick's Sister
Marcel Bozzuffi
Vago
Julien Guiomar
Gendarmerie Colonel
Renato Salvatori
Yago
Jean Bouise
Deputy Georges Pirou, friend of the Deputy
Clotilde Joano
Shoula
Maurice Baquet
Heroic Bricklayer
Habib Reda
Deputy Public Prosecutor
Hassan El-Hassani
General's Chauffeur
Gérard Darrieu
Barone, activist of the CROC
Jean-Pierre Miquel
Pierre, a lawyer
Sid Ahmed Agoumi
Gendarmerie Officer
Jean Dasté
Illya Coste, chauffeur
Van Doude
Hospital Director
Jean-François Gobbi
Jimmy, the boxer
Guy Mairesse
Dumas aka The Russian
Andrée Tainsy
Nick's Mother
Eva Simonet
Niki, the Prosecutor's Daughter
François Chaumette
(voice)
Allel El Mouhib
José Artur
Editor-in-chief of the newspaper (uncredited)
Raoul Coutard
English Surgeon (uncredited)
Steve Gadler
English Photographer (uncredited)
Gabriel Jabbour
Bozzini, secretary of the investigating judge (uncredited)
Georges Rouquier
Attorney General (uncredited)
Z Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
It is a great film for many reasons, not the least of which is that it can be enjoyed as a political thriller as well as a political statement.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It is a film of our time. It is about how even moral victories are corrupted. It will make you weep and will make you angry. It will tear your guts out.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
In its slick cinematic urgency and its outrage, Z still has the power to shake you up.
Slant Magazine
Bill Weber
It's still an eye-catching, fast-paced watch.
Film.com
Jonathan F. Richards
It's hard to overstate the impact that this Oscar-winning procedural thriller had in 1969, on a world roiling in political activism, repression, and discord.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Z, whose title is a stand-in for the Greek word zei ('he lives'), takes us back to where that fascination all began for Costa-Gavras and shows us that, for the rest of us, it hasn't ever really ended.
Slate
Dana Stevens
Z combines the intellectual heft of revolution-themed films like The Battle of Algiers with the drop-dead cool of mod touchstones like Blow Out or Le Samoura.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
Fascism has been driven underground, but a dose of Costa-Gavra's electrifyingly brutal 1969 political thriller Z will rattle you all the same.
Village Voice
Nicolas Rapold
The military junta that ensued in Greece gave the film a sense of urgency approved by Cannes and Oscar alike.
Variety
Variety Staff
A punchy political pic [from the novel by Vassilis Vassilikos] that mixes action, violence, and conspiracy on a robust, lavish scale.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
The usual excuse for films like this is that the crude melodrama helps communicate important political ideas and historical information, but Z doesn't communicate anything.
Tempo (National Council of Churches)
Harvey G. Cox
Trintignant's performance is masterful.
Freedomways
Jim Williams
[Director Costa-Gavras's] handling of the Lambrakis facts resulted in an uptempo, taut, jazzy type movie designed to hold the interest of even Hollywood-conditioned, mystery-action addicts.
Baltimore Afro-American
Adrienne Manns
For some reason foreign movies about sex and political life are so far above American movies on the subjects that there is really no comparison. Such is the case with Z.
Coast FM & Fine Arts
Paul Schrader
The film-makers' sense of immediacy transforms itself into style. Z is a film in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of itself, to explore itself.
Los Angeles Free Press
Richard Whitehall
There hasn't been a better foreign language movie in 1969.
LIFE
Richard Schickel
What's so great about Director Costa-Gavras' simple, forceful reconstruction of the event is its understatement.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
Z is a hell of an exciting movie, and it carries you along, though when it's over and you've caught your breath you know perfectly well that its techniques of excitation could as easily be used by a smart Fascist filmmaker, if there was one.
EDGE Boston
Phil Hall
Required viewing for any lover of political thrillers.
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