Dreyfus (1930 film)

Dreyfus
Directed by	Richard Oswald
Written by	Bruno Weil (novel) Heinz Goldberg Fritz Wendhausen
Produced by	Richard Oswald
Starring	Fritz Kortner Grete Mosheim Heinrich George Oskar Homolka
Cinematography	Heinrich Balasch Friedl Behn-Grund
Edited by	Max Brenner Jean Oser
Production company	Richard-Oswald-Produktion
Distributed by	Süd-Film
Release date	16 August 1930 (1930-08-16)
Running time	115 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Dreyfus is a 1930 German drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Fritz Kortner, Grete Mosheim, and Heinrich George.^[1] It portrays the Dreyfus affair and is based on a novel by Bruno Weil. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Franz Schroedter and Hermann Warm. It premiered at the Gloria-Palast in Berlin. In the United States the film was released under the alternative title The Dreyfus Case.

The film was remade the following year in Britain with Cedric Hardwicke in the title role.

In the late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accused of espionage. Found guilty of treason he is drummed out of the army and sent to prison on Devil's Island. His family take up the case of the wronged officer, as does the writer Emile Zola who believes the original investigation was marred by anti-Semitism. Eventually, the true culprit Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy is exposed.

• Prawer, Siegbert Salomon (2005). Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-074-8.

• Dreyfus at IMDb

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