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Everybody Loves Dreyfus

JL;DR SUMMARY Roman Polanski's film "An Officer and a Spy" dramatizes the infamous Dreyfus Affair, focusing on the antisemitic army intelligence officer Major Georges Picquart, who initially helped convict Captain Alfred Dreyfus but later uncovered his innocence. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryFilmAtonementDreyfus AffairInjusticeMilitaryRoman PolanskiFrench HistoryMajor Georges Picquart

Places mentioned

Paris, Île-de-France, France
"The opening minutes of An Officer and a Spy unfold in eerie silence. It is January 5, 1895, and in the wintry courtyard of the Parisian cole Militaire, thousands of soldiers stand in formation alongside a hushed crowd of civilian onlookers."
New York, United States
"At the Film Forum in New York."
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