Z is a 1969 Costa-Gavras film based on the actual event of the 1963 murder of a Greek pacifist, Gregoris Lambrakis. It is a robust piece about political fervor and obsession and official depravity. Played by Yves Montand, the victim (one of them, actually) is an honest, brave but unprotected liberal, the anti-Tim Walz. He lives in the Greece of the virile, anti-communist colonels, who want for their country a kind of spiritual unity: beyond Left and Right, they say. But they are profoundly corrupt. Why, up to a point they anticipate today’s Democratic party in America with its election fraud, lawfare, Antifa, and Bennie Thompson.

(In French with English subtitles)