Today's New York Times has this review by Manohla Dargis of "An Officer and a Spy," a movie by Roman Polanski that is only now being released in the United States. Check out this preview. Excerpt:
It’s difficult to overstate the magnitude of the Dreyfus Affair, which bitterly divided France between progressives and reactionaries, and seized the world’s attention. The journalist Ida B. Wells observed that white Americans expressed outrage over Dreyfus but not over murdered Black Americans. Theodor Herzl, a founder of Zionism, claimed that the trial made him a Zionist. The case led to anti-Jewish riots in France and in French-controlled Algeria, and fueled the antisemitism of Vichy France during World War II. And while it inspired Zola’s famous defense, it may have also cost him his life. He died in 1902 under mysterious circumstances.
This looks like a must-see.
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