An Officer and a Spy (2019)

Original title

J'accuse

Directed by

Roman Polanski

Genre

drama film, thriller film, historical film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

2h 12m

Rated

12

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 1,603 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A French military officer takes on the case of a Jewish army captain who was wrongly convicted of treason. He faces resistance from the military establishment as he uncovers a cover-up.

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What happens

An Officer and a Spy (French: J'accuse) is a 2019 historical drama film directed by Roman Polanski about the Dreyfus affair, with a screenplay by Polanski and Robert Harris based on Harris's 2013 novel of the same name. The French title has its origins in the J'Accuse...! open letter Émile Zola wrote in 1898 in which the author accused many people of France of continuing to support the increasingly blatantly erroneous accusations against Dreyfus. The film had its premiere at the 76th Venice International Film Festival on 30 August 2019, winning the Grand Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize. It received twelve nominations for the 45th César Awards, the most nominations of any eligible film, and eventually won the awards for Best Adaptation, Best Costume Design, and Best Director. The film was also nominated in four categories at the 32nd European Film Awards, including for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Screenwriter, ultimately winning none. It received David di Donatello and Polish Film Awards nominations as Best Foreign and Best European film respectively. It was a box-office bomb, grossing $18.9 million worldwide against a production budget of $24 million. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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