The Life of Emile Zola1937
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Director
Screenplay
Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg
Actors
Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden, Donald Crisp, Erin O'Brien-Moore, John Litel, Henry O'Neill, Louis Calhern, Ralph Morgan, Robert Barrat, Grant Mitchell, Robert Warwick, Gilbert Emery, Walter Kingsford, Montagu Love
Music
Versions
Theatrical – 116 Minutes
Genres
About the film
A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair. After struggling to establish himself, Zola wins success writing about the unsavory side of Paris and settles into a comfortable upper-class life. However, Zola's complacency is shaken when Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is imprisoned for being a spy. Realizing that Dreyfus is an innocent victim of anti-Semitism, Zola boldly pens a newspaper article exposing the truth, is charged with libel and must defend himself in a dramatic courtroom testimony.
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