[DREYFUS AFFAIR] [Jean Boullet] Poster for William Dieterle's film L'Affaire Dreyfus, starring Paul Muni. Idealia, Clichy, s.d. [1952]. 60 x 39.5 cm After Méliès' film, this film made in the 1930s is probably the best-known Dreyfus film of the Third Republic. It is William Dieterle's The Life of Émile Zola, produced by Warner in 1937. As well as banning the film from France, the French government also demanded that it be withdrawn from the Venice Film Festival on the grounds that it dishonored the French Army. It wasn't until 1952, the fiftieth anniversary of Zola's death, that the film was shown for the first time on a French cinema screen (Studio 28 in Montmartre). However, the censors authorized an English version, cut by twenty-seven minutes. In addition, an introductory note tells viewers that: The film's title is "The reasons which may have made Captain Dreyfus' first judges lean towards the thesis of guilt. [...] Without betraying history, one cannot speak of guilt declared a priori by the Army chiefs. This affair was not as simple as the film we are about to see seems to indicate." Our poster is therefore an important reminder of the time it took for the Dreyfus affair to be discussed calmly in France. A copy of this poster is on display at the Musée de Bretagne. Keywords : judaica, jew, jewish, hebrew, rabbis, jewish, torah, hebrew, hebraica, judaism, synagogue, zionism, pessah, pessach, haggada, haggadah, hagada, hagadah, passover, menora, menorah, hannuka, hannuca, hannucca, hanouccah, torah, juden, israélite, Israël, antisemitism, antisémitisme, dreyfus, meguila, sepharade, sefarad, ketouba