J’ACCUSE / AN OFFICER AND A SPY

Тhe film centers on the notorious 19th century Dreyfus affair. Captain Alfred Dreyfus, one of the few Jewish members of the French Army's general staff, is unjustly convicted of spying for Germany in 1894. French officer Georges Picquart risks his career and his life, struggling for a decade to expose the truth and liberate the wrongly convicted Dreyfus from the dreaded Devil's Island prison. The resulting exposure of criminal behavior implicating virtually the entire French general staff, backed by most of the political establishment, shook the French state to its foundations.

Roman Polański (1933, Paris) is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer, and actor. He attended the National Film School in Łódź, Poland. Polanski's first feature-length film, Knife in the Water (1962), was made in Poland and was nominated for a United States Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has since received five more Oscar nominations, along with two BAFTAs, four Césars, a Golden Globe Award and the Palme d'Or of the Cannes Film Festival. In 1968, he cemented his status by directing the horror film Rosemary's Baby (1968). The film Chinatown (1974) was nominated for eleven Academy Awards. He later produced and directed The Pianist (2002). The film won three Academy Awards including Best Director, along with numerous international awards. He was awarded Best Director for The Ghost Writer (2010) at the 23rd European Film Awards.