Director Costa-Gavras's father was persecuted by the Greek authorities for being suspected of being a Communist Party. Costa-Gavras spent his childhood under political discrimination and white terror. At the age of 19, he went into exile in Paris. In 1967, when the Greek military group staged a right-wing coup d'etat, he happened to read the novel "Z" by Vassilis Vassilikos. After reading this novel reflecting the "Lambrakis incident" in Greece, Costa-Gavras was filled with righteous indignation and a sense of political responsibility, and immediately decided to move the novel to the screen to reveal the truth of the "Lambrakis incident". Attack the Greek dictatorship. The film's co-writer George Sampran is a Spanish political exile, and composer Mikis Theodorakis was also arrested in the Greek military coup. Due to the sensitivity of the subject matter, the producers were reluctant to take risks. The director only managed to obtain funding from a French friend and a film company in Algeria. The film started shooting in Algeria at a cost of more than 700,000 US dollars. The director, in his own name, used a subtitle at the beginning of the film to indicate that "all these similarities with the real situation of the dead and the living are by no means accidental". Echoing the opening, the film ends with two stop-motion photos side by side, one of "Z" played by Yves Montand and the other of Lambrakis's portrait, superimposed with the caption "He's alive" to show This public tribute to the assassinated political activist. The film's political stance led to its ban from release in Greece
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Z creative background
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Extended Reading
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Jorge 2022-03-16 09:01:08
The foreign-language film that won the Oscar for best picture, the beginning of a political shady film, alludes to the Greek dictatorship. Getting better and better, the woman took the last sentence "Three years in prison for leaking official documents" shocking people. The zoom, flashback, and editing of the soundtrack are also praised, with a detective, thrilling, and farce style. Jacques Behan as producer
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Green 2022-03-23 09:03:15
Aside from the appearance of the genre film, its core is so strong... The moment when the judge changed the accident to murder was indeed very exciting, but the mention of philosophy and art far away from us at the end made me cry two lines of old, In this magical country, how could we ever have
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Le photojournaliste: The magistrate believed you. He started digging and found that Vago and Yago belong to a secret group.
Nick: Secret group?
Le photojournaliste: Yes, CROC.
Nick: Everybody knows 'em. The cops use 'em to keep order during state visits.
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Le procureur: You must settle this quickly. The city, the country, even the world is watching and waiting. Our country's honor is at stake. Forget about these lowlifes. Your future lies before you. This case can take you very far or break your career. Take it from someone who knows.