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Z

Algeria/France | 1968 | 127 mins | dir. Costa-Gavras, with Yves Montand, Jacques Perrin, François Périer, Irène Papas, Charles Denner

Set in an unnamed country, standing in for Greece of the 1960s, Z remains a great political thriller and an attack on Greece under military dictatorship. The story is based around the 1963 Lambrakis affair, when a democratic politician was clubbed to death.

Mon 25 Feb | 6.30pm | cert. 15