Adam and Josh reach a definitive milestone in Filmspotting’s Dissident Cinema Marathon with Costa-Gavras’s Oscar-winning 1969 masterpiece, Z. A thinly veiled account of a political assassination and subsequent government cover-up in Greece, the film stands as a foundational text for the modern paranoid thriller.

<p>Adam and Josh reach a definitive milestone in Filmspotting&rsquo;s Dissident Cinema Marathon with Costa-Gavras&rsquo;s Oscar-winning 1969 masterpiece, <em>Z</em>. A thinly veiled account of a political assassination and subsequent government cover-up in Greece, the film stands as a foundational text for the modern paranoid thriller.</p>

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The 1969 political thriller helped create the grammar for modern movie paranoia.

Z: Costa-Gavras’s Jolting Anti-Fascist Thriller | Dissident Cinema

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