Critic Reviews
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Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com
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.
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Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
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.
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Ty Burr, Boston Globe
In its slick cinematic urgency and its outrage, Z still has the power to shake you up.
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Dana Stevens, Slate
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 Samouraï.
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David Edelstein, New York Magazine
Fascism has been driven underground, but a dose of Costa-Gavra's electrifyingly brutal 1969 political thriller Z will rattle you all the same.
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Cast
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Yves Montandas The Deputy -
Irene Papasas Helene the Deputy's wife -
Jean-Louis Trintignantas The Magistrate
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Jacques Perrinas Photojournalist -
François Périeras Public Prosecutor -
Charles Denneras Manuel

