Dreyfus (1930 film)
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Dreyfus was a 1930 film on the Dreyfus affair
, based on a novel by Bruno Weil. It was translated into English as Dreyfus
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Dreyfus Affair
The Dreyfus affair was a political scandal that divided France in the 1890s and the early 1900s. It involved the conviction for treason in November 1894 of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young French artillery officer of Alsatian Jewish descent...
, based on a novel by Bruno Weil. It was translated into English as Dreyfus
Dreyfus (1931 film)
Dreyfus is a 1931 British film on the Dreyfus affair, translated from the play by Wilhelm Herzog and Hans Rehfisch and the 1930 German film Dreyfus.-Cast:*Cedric Hardwicke - Capt. Alfred Dreyfus*Charles Carson - Col. Picquart...
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Cast
- Fritz KortnerFritz KortnerFritz Kortner was an Austrian-born stage and film actor and theatre director.Kortner was born in Vienna as Fritz Nathan Kohn. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After graduating, he joined Max Reinhardt in Berlin in 1911 and then Leopold Jessner in 1916. Also in that year...
- Alfred DreyfusAlfred DreyfusAlfred Dreyfus was a French artillery officer of Jewish background whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most tense political dramas in modern French and European history... - Grete MosheimGrete MosheimMargaret "Grete" Mosheim was a German film, theatre and television actress of Hungarian Jewish ancestry.-Early life:Mosheim was born in Berlin, Germany on 8 January 1905...
- Lucie Dreyfus - Erwin Kalser - Mathieu Dreyfus (brother of the accused)
- Heinrich GeorgeHeinrich GeorgeHeinrich George , born Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz, was a German stage and film actor.He had one of his first roles in the Fritz Lang directed film Metropolis and the first film version of Berlin Alexanderplatz...
- Emile ZolaÉmile ZolaÉmile François Zola was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism... - Albert BassermannAlbert BassermannAlbert Bassermann was a German stage and screen actor.-Career:Bassermann began his acting career in 1887 in his birthplace, Mannheim. He then spent four years at the Hoftheater in Meiningen. He then moved to Berlin. From 1899, he worked for Otto Brahm. He began work at the Deutsches Theater...
- Col. PicquartGeorges PicquartMarie Georges Picquart , was a French army officer and Minister of War. He is best known for his role in the Dreyfus Affair.-Early career:... - Oskar Homolka - Maj. Ferdinand Walsin EsterhazyFerdinand Walsin EsterhazyCharles Marie Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy was a commissioned officer in the French armed forces during the second half of the 19th century who has gained notoriety as a spy for the German Empire and the actual perpetrator of the act of treason for which Captain Alfred Dreyfus was wrongfully accused...
- Nora Mestom - Marguerite Pays (his girlfriend)
- Ferdinand Hart - Maj. HenryHubert-Joseph HenryHubert-Joseph Henry , French Lieutenant-Colonel in 1897 involved in the Dreyfus affair. Arrested for having forged evidence against Alfred Dreyfus, he was found dead in his prison cell...
- Fritz RaspFritz RaspFritz Heinrich Rasp was a German film actor who appeared in 104 films between 1916 and 1976.His most notable film roles were "J. J. Peachum" in The Threepenny Opera , as Meinert in Diary of a Lost Girl , and as "Der Schmale" in Fritz Lang's Metropolis...
- Maj. Du Paty de ClamArmand du Paty de ClamLieutenant-Colonel Charles Armand Auguste Ferdinand Mercier du Paty de Clam was a French army officer and graphologist, and a key figure in the Dreyfus affair.... - Paul BildtPaul BildtPaul Hermann Bildt was a German film actor. He appeared in over 180 films between 1910 and 1956. He was born and died in Berlin, Germany.- Selected filmography :* Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs...
- Georges ClemenceauGeorges ClemenceauGeorges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman, physician and journalist. He served as the Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909, and again from 1917 to 1920. For nearly the final year of World War I he led France, and was one of the major voices behind the Treaty of Versailles at the... - Fritz KampersFritz KampersFritz Kampers was a German film actor. He appeared in 261 films between 1913 and 1950.-Selected filmography:* Westfront 1918 * Dreyfus * Die Bräutigamswitwe * Kameradschaft...
- LaboriFernand-Gustave-Gaston LaboriFernand-Gustave-Gaston Labori was a French attorney. He was born in Rheims. In his professional life, he defended the accused in some of the most prominent political cases in of his day. Among his noted clients was Alfred Dreyfus, who was eventually acquitted of treason...
(defense counsel) - Paul HenckelsPaul HenckelsPaul Henckels was a German film actor. He appeared in over 230 films between 1921 and 1965.-Selected filmography:* Sex in Chains * Skandal um Eva * Dreyfus * The Sorceror...
- Edgar Demange (defense counsel) - Ferdinand Bonn - Gen. Mercier
- Leopold von Ledebur - Gen. De BoisdeffreRaoul Le Mouton de BoisdeffreRaoul François Charles Le Mouton de Boisdeffre, or more commonly Raoul de Boisdeffre was a French army officer ....
- Bernhard GoetzkeBernhard GoetzkeBernhard Goetzke was a German film actor. He appeared in 130 films between 1917 and 1961.He was born in Danzig and died in Berlin.-Selected filmography:...
- Gen. Pellieux - Fritz AlbertiFritz Alberti-Selected filmography:* The Blackguard * The Student of Prague * Café Elektric * The Gallant Hussar * Indizienbeweis * The Adjutant of the Czar * The Dreyfus Case * Zwei Menschen...
- Godefroy CavaignacJacques Marie Eugène Godefroy CavaignacJacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac , known as Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician, was born in Paris. He was the son of Louis Eugène Cavaignac... - Eduard Rothauser - Capt. Lauth
- Josef Reithofer - Maj. Forzinetti (prison governor)
- Bruno Ziener - Alphonse BertillonAlphonse BertillonAlphonse Bertillon was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who created anthropometry, an identification system based on physical measurements. Anthropometry was the first scientific system used by police to identify criminals. Before that time, criminals could only be identified...
- Sigmund Nunberg - Chairman of the Jury Court
- Elsa Basserman - Parisian lady
- Fritz Reiff - Jean JauresJean JaurèsJean Léon Jaurès was a French Socialist leader. Initially an Opportunist Republican, he evolved into one of the first social democrats, becoming the leader, in 1902, of the French Socialist Party, which opposed Jules Guesde's revolutionary Socialist Party of France. Both parties merged in 1905 in...
- Bernd Aldor - Dubois
- Ferry von Gorup - Officer in military prison, Cherche-Midi