The Life of Emile Zola

Year: 1937

Runtime: 116 mins

Language: English

Director: William Dieterle

DramaHistoryPolitics and human rightsNazis and World War IIPowerful poetic and passionate drama

A dramatized portrait of French novelist Émile Zola, showing his rise from struggling writer to celebrated chronicler of Paris’s darker side. When Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted, Zola publishes the incendiary “J’Accuse…!” article, faces libel charges, and delivers a fierce courtroom defense exposing anti‑Semitism.

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