Dreyfus (1930) - Filmanfang

Director
Production company
Richard Oswald-Produktion GmbH (Berlin)
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Source

Filmmuseum Düsseldorf

Category
Filmanfänge

The video shows the first five minutes of the film.

Film synopsis: History of the legal scandal involving the French Captain Alfred Dreyfus who was convicted of treason and sent to the penal colony at Devil’s Island in 1894 because of an anti-Semitic conspiracy in the war ministry. Supported by the writer Emile Zola Dreyfus’s wife Lucie fights for his release. In 1899, the verdict against Dreyfus was repealed and shortly after, Dreyfus was pardoned. But it took another six years until Dreyfus was fully exonerated.