''Dreyfus'' is a 1931 British film on the

Dreyfus affair The Dreyfus affair (french: affaire Dreyfus, ) was a political scandal that divided the French Third Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906. "L'Affaire", as it is known in French, has come to symbolise modern injustice in the Francop ...

, translated from the play by

Wilhelm Herzog Wilhelm Herzog (12 January 1884 in Berlin – 4 April 1960 in Munich) was a German historian of literature and culture, dramatist, encyclopedist, and pacifist. Life He studied economics, Germanistics and history of art in Berlin. After publish ...

and

Hans Rehfisch Hans Rehfisch (10 April 1891 – 9 June 1960), also known as Hans José Rehfisch or H.J. Rehfisch, was a German playwright, short story writer and film script writer. Early life Born to Jewish parents in Berlin, where his father Eugen Rehfisch ...

and the 1930 German film '' Dreyfus''. It features

George Zucco George Zucco (11 January 1886 – 27 May 1960) was a British character actor who appeared in plays and 96 films, mostly American-made, during a career spanning over two decades, from the 1920s to 1951. In his films, he often played a suave ...

in his film debut.

Cast

* Cedric Hardwicke as Capt.

Alfred Dreyfus Alfred Dreyfus ( , also , ; 9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French artillery officer of Jewish ancestry whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most polarizing political dramas in modern French history. ...

* Charles Carson as Col. Picquart * George Merritt as

Émile Zola Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, also , ; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of ...

* Sam Livesey as Labori *

Beatrix Thomson Beatrix Thomson (1900–1986) was a British stage actress. She also made a handful of appearances in film and television. A graduate of RADA, she made her West End debut in John Galsworthy's '' Loyalties'' in 1922. She was married to the actor C ...

as Lucille Dreyfus * Garry Marsh as Maj. Esterhazy *

Randle Ayrton Frederick Randle Ayrton (9 August 1869 – 28 May 1940) was a British actor of stage and screen, and was also a producer and director. Early life Ayrton was born in Chester to William Frances Ayrton, a wealthy wine-merchant who was a pa ...

as Court-martial president *Henry Caine as Col. Hubert-Joseph Henry *Reginald Dance as President, Zola trial *George Skillan as Maj. Armand du Paty de Clam *Leonard Shepherd as

Georges Clemenceau Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (, also , ; 28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A key figure of the Independent Radicals, he was a ...

* Arthur Hardy as Gen. Auguste Mercier *Alexander Sarner as

Mathieu Dreyfus Mathieu Dreyfus (1857–1930) was an Alsatian Jewish industrialist and the older brother of Alfred Dreyfus, a French military officer falsely convicted of treason in what became known as the Dreyfus affair. Mathieu was one of his brother's most ...

* Frederick Leister as Edgar Demange *J. Fisher White as

Georges-Gabriel de Pellieux George Gabriel de Pellieux (6 September 1842 – 15 July 1900) was a French army officer who was best known for ignoring evidence during the Dreyfus affair, a scandal in which a Jewish officer was convicted of treason on the basis of a forgery. Ea ...

Abraham Sofaer Abraham Isaac Sofaer (1 October 1896 – 21 January 1988) was a Burmese-born British actor who began his career on stage and became a familiar supporting player in film and on television in his later years. Life and career Although Sofaer was b ...

as Dubois *J. Leslie Frith as

Alphonse Bertillon Alphonse Bertillon (; 22 April 1853 – 13 February 1914) was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement creating an identification system based on physical me ...

as Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac

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* 1931 films 1930s historical drama films Films about the Dreyfus affair British multilingual films British remakes of German films British historical drama films Cultural depictions of Alfred Dreyfus Cultural depictions of Émile Zola Cultural depictions of Georges Clemenceau British black-and-white films 1931 multilingual films 1931 drama films Films shot at British International Pictures Studios 1930s English-language films 1930s British films {{1930s-UK-film-stub

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