The Dreyfus Affair
Nov 04 1899
•0h 13m
•Drama
The first movie ever censored for political reasons. The title refers to the then contemporaneous Dreyfus affair in which a Jewish military officer was falsely convicted of treason, and it was alleged that he was framed due to anti-semitism.
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Georges Méliès
Fernand Labori
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