L'Affaire Dreyfus (1958)
En 1894, le capitaine Alfred Dreyfus est accusé de haute trahison. Cet officier aurait livré à l'Allemagne des documents stratégiques de la plus haute importance. Reconnu coupable à l'issue d'un procès expéditif, le capitaine est dégradé publiquement puis exilé sur l'île du Diable. Cependant, des preuves de la culpabilité d'un autre officier, le commandant Esterhazy, font bientôt surface. Emile Zola prend alors la plume pour appeler à la révision du procès de Dreyfus et condamner l'antisémitisme qui a conduit à ce jugement inique. Il stigmatise l'attitude de l'armée, qui a fait condamner un bouc émissaire à la place des vrais coupables. L'opinion se déchire...
Directeur:
José Ferrer
écrivain:
Gore Vidal
![]() |
José Ferrer as Captain Alfred Dreyfus |
![]() |
Adolf Wohlbrück as Maj. Esterhazy |
![]() |
Viveca Lindfors as Lucie Dreyfus |
![]() |
Leo Genn as Maj. Picquart |
![]() |
Emlyn Williams as Emile Zola |
![]() |
David Farrar as Mathieu Dreyfus |
![]() |
Donald Wolfit as Gen. Mercier |
![]() |
Herbert Lom as Maj. DuPaty de Clam |
![]() |
Harry Andrews as Maj. Henry |
![]() |
Felix Aylmer as Edgar Demange |
![]() |
Peter Illing as Georges Clemenceau |
![]() |
George Coulouris as Colonel Sandherr |
![]() |
Carl Jaffe as Colonel Maximilian von Schwarzkoppen |
![]() |
Eric Pohlmann as Bertillon |
![]() |
John Chandos as Drumont |
![]() |
Ernest Clark as Prosecutor at First Dreyfus Trial |
![]() |
Anthony Ireland as Judge at First Dreyfus Trial |
![]() |
John Phillips as Prosecutor at Esterhazy Trial |
![]() |
Laurence Naismith as Judge at Esterhazy Trial |
![]() |
Michael Hordern as Prosecutor at Second Dreyfus Trial |
![]() |
Keith Pyott as Judge at Second Dreyfus Trial |
![]() |
Ronald Howard as Captain Avril |
![]() |
Charles Gray as Captain Brossard |
![]() |
Arthur Howard as Captain Lauth |
![]() |
Michael Trubshawe as English Publisher |
![]() |
Violet Gould as Old Woman |
![]() |
Malcolm Keen as President of France |
![]() |
Rachel Lemkov as Captain Dreyfus' Daughter |
| Directing | José Ferrer | Director |
| Writing | Gore Vidal | Screenplay |
| Writing | Nicholas Halasz | Novel |
| Art | Elliot Scott | Art Direction |
| Sound | Kendrick Kinney | Sound Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Charles E. Parker | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | William Alwyn | Original Music Composer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Joan Johnstone | Hairdresser |
| Crew | Douglas Gamley | Additional Music |
| Sound | Muir Mathieson | Conductor |
| Crew | Peter Diamond | Stunts |
| Production | Sam Zimbalist | Producer |
| Camera | Freddie Young | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Van Allen James | Sound Editor |
| Sound | John Logan | Sound Editor |
| Editing | Frank Clarke | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Elizabeth Haffenden | Costume Design |
| Production | Dora Wright | Production Manager |
| Directing | Otto Plaschkes | Second Assistant Director |
| Sound | A.W. Watkins | Recording Supervision |
| Visual Effects | Tom Howard | Visual Effects |