# Z (1969)

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**Runtime**: 122 min
**Genres**: Thriller, Crime, Drama
**Directed by**: Costa-Gavras
**Written by**: Costa-Gavras, Jorge Semprún
**Starring**: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner, François Périer

> *He is alive!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Athens. Late afternoon, marble columns stain red.

A jeep skids past pamphlets, a judge’s notebook left open in the dust.

A single assassin’s heel grinds into the courtroom floor.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, paranoid, raw

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