Featured artists:
Alain Planès, Hugues Borsarello, Estelle Villotte, Aurelien Sabouret, Alain Billard, Clément Saunier, Stéphane Labeyrie, Jeff Boudreaux
An officer and a spy centres on the notorious 19th century Dreyfus affair. French actor Jean Dujardin stars as the officer Georges Picquart. After being appointed chief of the army’s intelligence section in 1895, he discovers that doctored evidence was used to convict Alfred Dreyfus, one of the few Jewish members of the French Army’s general staff, of passing military secrets to the German Empire. Picquart risks his life career and his life, struggling for a decade to expose the truth and liberate the wrongly convicted Dreyfus from dreaded Devil’s island prison.
The film took home the Venice Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize.
