This historical drama, about efforts to clear the wrongly convicted French captain Alfred Dreyfus, brings to mind the ...

In the opening scene of Roman Polanski’s An Officer and a Spy, a retelling of the infamous Dreyfus Affair — in which Alfred ...

After this dramatic opening scene, Polanski barely focuses on Dreyfus at all. This is Picquart’s film: He is the main ...

An Officer and a Spy captures the moral oppositions of history and the present. There’s none of the sentimental flamboyance that was in The Life of Emile Zola (1937), Hollywood’s stirring, ...

An Officer and a Spy” is one of Polanski’s finest pictures, which means it’s very fine indeed. The film treats the infamous ...

Six years after its French release, the movie is screening in New York. It’s the first Roman Polanski movie to open in the ...

Once again, the French Jewish Army captain Alfred Dreyfus is making headlines. More than 130 years after his trial for espionage, and 90 years after his death, France’s National Assembly has ...

Investigation suggested this treasonous offense was committed by Capt. Alfred Dreyfus. Dreyfus was born in France on Oct. 9, 1859. He was one of nine children. His father was a textile manufacturer.

Alfred Dreyfus Samuelson, while not strictly a member of the Dreyfus family, is keeping the family name alive. “If they would have named me ‘John Smith’ or something, that would be ...

Alfred Dreyfus, 100, passed away peacefully on October 4, 2024. He was born in Rastatt, Germany on December 11, 1923, to Emmy (née Lieblich) and Manfred Dreyfus. From his father, an industrialist ...

‘Alfred Dreyfus’ Review: A Nation on Trial Exiled to Devil’s Island in 1894, Dreyfus retained his confidence in French justice and refused to denounce his country.

Alfred Dreyfus in captivity on Devil’s Island, 1898. F. Hamel via Wikimedia Commons Even more strikingly, the author of “The Three Musketeers” and “The Count of Monte Cristo,” Alexandre Dumas, was put ...