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Chronicling incidents leading up to the 1963 assassination of Greek physician, politician and outspoken pacifist Gregoris Lambrakis. Based on actual events., Based on a novel by Vassili Vassilikos, this film stars Yves Montand as a Greek pacifist leader who is killed by a speeding truck. The police rule the death as accidental. But journalist Jean-Louis Trintignant, smelling a rat, launches his own investigation. His findings unearth a neo-fascist campaign of terror., Costa-Gavras’ Oscar-winning film is still as powerful and relevant today as it was on release. It tells the true story of Greek humanist Gregorious Lambrakis (Yves Montand), assassinated because of his left-wing views. The police seem reluctant to pursue the case but as Examining Magistrate Jean-Louis Trintignant delves deeper, despite being warned off, he discovers police and government corruption and collusion. The Generals were still in power at the time so the film was made in Algeria and Greece but captures exactly the Greece of the time. In French with subtitles.