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An Officer and a Spy (2019)

★ 7.1 · 1,587 ratings on TMDB

Vive la France ! Vive l’armée !

An Officer and a Spy poster★ 7.1

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.

DirectorRoman Polanski
CastDidier Sandre, Emmanuelle Seigner, Eric Ruf, Grégory Gadebois, Hervé Pierre, Jean Dujardin
GenresDrama, History, Thriller
The emergence reading

An Officer and a Spy keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E9/E10/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Shared director or cast.

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