In this interesting picture we are given a vivid idea of the principal incidents connected with the Dreyfus case, which caused such a stir in military circles in the year of 1894. Alfred Dreyfus, an officer on the general staff, was charged with selling secrets to a foreign power. He was tried and judged guilty on flimsy evidence, and sentenced to imprisonment on Devil's Island, where he remained for eight years, until his influential friends, who took up his case in earnest, proved it was a plot formed by other officers, who subsequently confessed to having forged the documents.

Original title:

L'affaire Dreyfus

Release:

July 04, 1908

Original language:

English

Production country:

France

Producer company:

Pathé Frères

Ferdinand Zecca

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Lucien Nonguet

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