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The Dreyfus affair

Duration: 15

Year Published: 1970

Creator: Texture Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Uses period etchings and drawings to portray the details of the famous trial of Alfred Dreyfus in France at the turn of the century. Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a military officer and a Jew, was falsely accused of treason in 1894. Depicts the violent social, military, and judicial controversies that ensued. The indications of anti-Semitism split France into two opposing camps for years afterward.

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