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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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