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1969 French-Algerian film by Costa-Gavras
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7.8A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined to not to let them get away with it.
Released: 1969-02-26122 minDir: Costa-GavrasThriller, Crime, DramaBox office: $83,305
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Cast
- Yves Montand as Z
- Irene Papas as Hélène
- Jean-Louis Trintignant as Examining Magistrate
- Jacques Perrin as Photojournalist
- Charles Denner as Manuel
- François Périer as Public Prosecutor
Themes
- central intelligence agency (cia)
- assassination
- government
- corruption
- police
- politics
- fascism
- greece
- investigation
- pacifism
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Ratings
IMDb
8.1/10
32,517 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
94%
Metacritic
86/100
- Year
- 1969
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Rated
- M/PG
- Awards
- Won 2 Oscars. 12 wins & 13 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Costa-Gavras
- Screenplay by
- Jorge Semprún Costa-Gavras
- Based on
- Z: Fictional Documentary of a Crime [ el ] , by Vassilis Vassilikos
- Produced by
- Jacques Perrin Ahmed Rachedi
- Starring
- Yves Montand Irene Papas Jean-Louis Trintignant Charles Denner Georges Geret Jacques Perrin François Perier Bernard Fresson Pierre Dux Julien Guiomar Marcel Bozzuffi Magali Noël Renato Salvatori
- Cinematography
- Raoul Coutard
- Edited by
- Françoise Bonnot
- Music by
- Mikis Theodorakis
- Production companies
- Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique [ fr ] Reggane Films Valoria Films
- Distributed by
- Varloria Films (France)
- Release date
- 26 February 1969 ( 1969-02-26 ) (France)
- Running time
- 127 minutes
- Countries
- France Algeria
- Languages
- French Russian English
- Box office
- $17.3 million (United States)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Named after
- Ζ
- Country of origin
- France
- Original language
- Russian
- Director
- Costa-Gavras
- Screenwriter
- Costa-Gavras
- Cast member
- Jean-Pierre Miquel
- Composer
- Mikis Theodorakis
- Producer
- Ahmed Rachedi
- Cinematographer
- Raoul Coutard
- Narrative location
- Greece
- Filming location
- Algiers
- Duration
- 127
- FilmAffinity ID
- 845433
- Distribution format
- video on demand
Show 10 more facts
- film editor
- Françoise Bonnot
- title
- Z
- color
- black-and-white
- after a work by
- Vassilis Vassilikos
- different from
- Z
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 86/100
- box office
- 17300000
- publication date
- 1970-01-01
- Commons category
- Z (film)
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