Z，為流亡Costa-Gavras希臘導演Costa-Gavras的political thriller。以真實歷史事件希臘民主政治家Gregoris Lambrakis被當時的希臘極權政府設計謀害一案為故事。這部革命性的政治電影，有著這樣的opening credit 和 ending narration:

Opening Credit:
Any resemblance to actual events, to persons living or dead, is not
the result of chance. It is DELIBERATE.
(Signed by) Jorge Semprún, Costa-Gavras


Ending Narration:
Concurrently, the military banned long hair on males; mini-skirts; Sophocles; Tolstoy; Euripedes; smashing glasses after drinking toasts; labor strikes; Aristophanes; Ionesco; Sartre; Albee; Pinter; freedom of the press; sociology; Beckett; Dostoyevsky; modern music; popular music; the new mathematics; and the letter "Z", which in ancient Greek means "He is alive!"