Z (film) (original) (raw)

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• Introduction
• Unnamed country

See also:

• Fictional flags in film
• Fictional flags

External:

• IMDB on Z

Introduction

The 1969 film Z, a political thriller directed by Costa Gavras. Filmed in France and Algeria, the movie was set in an unnamed state; its plot was a barely-fictionalized retelling of the 1963 assassination of a Greek politician, Grigoris Lambrakis.
Eugene Ipavec, 28 February 2011

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image by Eugene Ipavec, 28 February 2011

The vehicles of high officials in the film display a car flag: blue with four small light-colored objects (stars?) arranged in a cross-shape. On the obverse only, another charge appears to be added in the center of the cross, a larger but less solid squiggle. (A CoA, monogram, or a French "RF"?)

I don't know if the flags were newly-made props, or real French or Algerian car flags conscripted by the filmmakers. Checking the French and Algerian pages, I could find no similar positional or service flags.
Eugene Ipavec, 28 February 2011

This screenshot from the movie shows a flag with four stars on blue. Since the (apparently) fictional unnamed country is based on Greece in all but name, without doubt it's areference to the Greek Cross.
José Eduardo González Vargas, 14 May 2008