Film as Witness in Costa-Gavras’s Z
![A crowd of men stand on the road at night; in the back is a line of men wearing blue helmets. In front of them are mostly men in suits. At the front is Yves Montand, dressed in a brown suit.](https://www.perisphere.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-09-at-9.03.26-AM-888x350.png)
|Luke Mosher| This essay contains spoilers for the film Z. Costa-Gavras’s 1969 film Z is a fictionalized account of the 1963 assassination of the Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis by the Greek government. The title refers not to our English Z but the Greek letter Zeta, which protesters… Continue reading