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1969
Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (formerly Best Foreign Language Film) — 42nd Academy Awards
- Director:
- Costa-Gavras
- Studio:
- Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique, Reggane Films, Valoria Films
- Starring:
- Jean-Louis Trintignant, Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Charles Denner, Georges Geret
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In an unnamed Mediterranean country modeled on 1960s Greece, a leftist deputy is fatally struck down by right-wing thugs after a political rally, in what authorities immediately rule an accident. A dogged young magistrate, initially expected to rubber-stamp the cover-up, instead digs into the case and uncovers a conspiracy reaching into the highest levels of the military and police. Costa-Gavras's furious political thriller follows the investigation's inconvenient triumph, only for a bitter epilogue to reveal how thoroughly the guilty escape consequences once the ruling junta reasserts control.