Movie Description Based on a true incident, the Deputy Z is struck down by a speeding truck while hundreds watch. Despite the report of accidental death, a journalist's questioning of the facts leads to an investigation.
| Credits | | Cast: | Jean-Louis Trintignant |
Notes DVD Features:
Region 0 Keep Case Letterboxed Audio: Mono - French Dolby Digital 5.1 - French Subtitles - English - Optional Additional Release Material: Audio Commentary Featurette - 1. Excerpts from "Costa Gavras Talks With Marcel Ophuls: Political Films" Trailers Interactive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus, Film was originally rated M by the MPAA, but was re-rated PG when the M rating was discontinued.
Rated BBFC PG by the British Board of Film Classification.
Available in the UK on video, distributed by Arrow AV007.
"Z" won the Jury Prize and Jean-Louis Trintignant won the Best Actor award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.
A production of Reggane Films and ONCIC.
Filmed on location in Algeria.
Editorial Reviews "...The movie exhilarates with its blistering pace and extraordinarily corrupt villains..." USA Today - Mike Clark (06/28/2002)
"Z is a pulse-pounding procedural that pieces together the murder of a left-wing youth leader....This is an amazing film..." -- Grade: A- Entertainment Weekly - Chris Nashawaty (10/29/2009)
"It was the perfect film for the end of a turbulent decade, and eternally relevant to the brutal regimes that have popped up since." -- Grade: A- Box Office - Scott Tobias (10/28/2009)
Awards 1969Academy AwardsBest Film Editing, 1969Academy AwardsBest Foreign Language Film, 1969CannesBest ActorJean-Louis Trintignant
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