Após o assassinato de um esquerdista de destaque, um investigador tenta descobrir a verdade, enquanto funcionários do governo tentam encobrir seus papéis.Após o assassinato de um esquerdista de destaque, um investigador tenta descobrir a verdade, enquanto funcionários do governo tentam encobrir seus papéis.Após o assassinato de um esquerdista de destaque, um investigador tenta descobrir a verdade, enquanto funcionários do governo tentam encobrir seus papéis.
- Ganhou 2 Oscars
- 12 vitórias e 13 indicações no total
- Hélène
- (as Irène Papas)
- Vago
- (as Marcel Bozzufi)
- Shoula
- (as Clotilde Joanno)
Enredo
Você sabia?
- CuriosidadesThe actor playing the doctor got cold feet during his explanation of the X-rays of Z's cranium. A real doctor, acting as an extra, volunteered to fill in and finished the scene - his only acting performance on film.
- Erros de gravaçãoAfter hitting Z, Vigo and Yago escape on a three-wheeler. Shortly thereafter, the driver Yago is captured by a policeman. The policeman searches him and finds a truncheon. When the guard uses the truncheon on Yago's chest to keep him away, the stick clearly flexes.
- Citações
Françoise Bonnot, Voiceover Narration: [final lines] The military regime banned: long hair, miniskirts, Sophocles, Tolstoy, Euripides, Russian-style toasts, strikes, Aristophanes, Ionesco, Sartre, Albee, Pinter, freedom of the press, sociology, Beckett, Dostoyevsky, modern music, pop music, new math, and the letter Z, which means HE LIVES in Ancient Greek.
- Cenas durante ou pós-créditosAny resemblance to actual events, to persons living or dead, is not the result of chance. It is DELIBERATE. (Signed by) Jorge Semprún, Costa-Gavras
- ConexõesFeatured in La solitude du chanteur de fond (1974)
- Trilhas sonorasMesse Pour le Temps Présent--Psyché Rock
(uncredited)
Composed and Performed by Pierre Henry
Courtesy of Philips/PolyGram Records
by arrangement with PolyGram Special Markets
© 1967 Philips Classics Productions
For those who are up to date with Greek history, the country is Greece, the city is Thessaloniki and the politician is Grigoris Lambrakis. But that is of small importance, since this is a story which could have (and possibly has) happened anywhere at any time in history.
About the film: the cinematography is excellent, even by today's standards. The acting and direction are both top class. But what impressed me the most was the film's editing. After the slow first 15-20 minutes or so, the film picks up a pace which is tight and lightning fast. The dialogue is concise and to the point - the film's last lines, spoken by the Narrator and found in the quotes section of IMDb, never fail to bring tears to my eyes. Finally, the film offers what I consider to be the best film score of all time (but I may be a bit biased on this, since the score is by Mikis Theodorakis, my personal favourite).
This kind of documentary-style film making has been done plenty of times since, especially in political thrillers. But this is what sparked everything up. Watch this film. You'll be rewarded.
My rating: 10/10
- barba_george
- 26 de jul. de 2006
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- How long is Z?Fornecido pela Alexa
Detalhes
- Data de lançamento
- Países de origem
- Centrais de atendimento oficiais
- Idiomas
- Também conhecido como
- Z - Anatomie eines politischen Mordes
- Locações de filme
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Bilheteria
- Faturamento bruto nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 83.305
- Fim de semana de estreia nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 10.144
- 15 de mar. de 2009
- Faturamento bruto mundial
- US$ 83.305