Year: 1937
Genre:
Biography, Drama
Category: Movie
IMDB Rating: 7,3 (NEVAZUT)
Country: USA
Language:
Director: William Dieterle
Writer: Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, Matthew Josephson
Composer: Max Steiner
Producer: Henry Blanke, Hal B. Wallis, Jack L. Warner
Actors: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden, Donald Crisp, Erin O'Brien-Moore, John Litel, Henry O'Neill, Morris Carnovsky, Louis Calhern, Ralph Morgan, Robert Barrat, Vladimir Sokoloff, Grant Mitchell, Harry Davenport, Robert Warwick, Charles Richman, Gilbert Emery, Walter Kingsford, Paul Everton, Montagu Love, Frank Sheridan, Lumsden Hare, Marcia Mae Jones, Florence Roberts, Dickie Moore, Rolla Gourvitch, Arthur Aylesworth, Maurice Black, Stanley Blystone, Egon Brecher, Iphigenie Castiglioni, Robert Cummings Sr., Frank Darien, Franklyn Farnum, Holmes Herbert, Paul Irving, Alexander Leftwich, Eric Mayne, Frank Mayo, Alex Novinsky, Moroni Olsen, Frank Reicher, Walter O. Stahl, Wilhelm von Brincken, Pierre Watkin, Dolores Weisenfreund, Harry Worth
Description: Fictionalized account of the life of famed French author Emile Zola. As portrayed in the film, he was a penniless writer sharing an apartment in Paris with painter Paul Cezanne when he finally wrote a best-seller, Nana. He has always had difficulty holding onto a job as he is quite outspoken, being warned on several occasions by the public prosecutor that he risks charges if he does not temper his writings. The bulk of the film deals with his involvement in the case of Captain Alfred Dreyfus who was falsely convicted of giving secret military information to the Germans and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devils Island. Antisemitism played an important role in the real-life case but is hardly mentioned in the film. Even after the military found definitive evidence that Dreyfus was innocent, the army decided to cover it up rather than face the scandal of having arbitrarily convicted the wrong man. Zola's famous letter, J'Accuse (I Accuse), led to his own trial for libel where he was ...
Comments:
Duration: 116 minutes (at 23.976 frames per second)
File path: Z:\02320 - Life of Emile Zola (1937) [DVDRip]\The.Life.of.Emile.Zola.1937.DVDRip.XviD-VH-PROD.avi
Filesize: 699 MB
Video: XviD - resolution: 512x384 - quality: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
Audio:
Subtitles: English