Adaptation Displacement: Based on a book by Vassilis Vassilikos, though the movie is much better known.
Award Snub: The producers refused to accept the film's Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film to protest it being ineligible for the main Best Motion Picture Drama award. They had no trouble accepting the equivalent Oscar, as the film was nominated for Best Picture there too (the first Foreign Language film nominated for both awards).
Moment of Awesome: The Prosecutor brings forth tons of high officials, proceeds to take them apart in testimony, and then arrests them. The fact that they chose the prosecutor, thinking he was pushover, just makes it better.
Tear Jerker: Despite the prosecutor's success in tearing the powerful men apart, the ending shows that it all ultimately adds up to nothing. All the culprits pretty much only get a slap on the wrist, and the extremist government effectively stays in power until years later. In real life, though, the character whom the prosecutor is based on (Christos Sartzetakis), did manage to overcome the hardships and became the President of Greece in the 1980s.
Sequelitis: Upon its release, the original Z was seen as an innovative spin on the standard real-time strategy formula that gathered a dedicated fanbase. However, Steel Soldiers was widely criticized for failing to build on its predecessor's formula, and instead the attempt to bring the game more in line with other real-time strategy games of the era resulted in a run-of-the-mill title with dated graphics that did not offer anything new compared to the then popular games such as Star Craft, Warzone2100 or Ground Control. It's telling that the original game has an updated version and two fan remakes, but the sequel has neither.