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The Old Docker

Name: The Old Docker
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 1914-03-28
Duration: 5 min
Rating: 6.7

★ 6,7 /10 (3 Votes)

1914 FR 5 min

Overview

A re-enactment of the Jules Durand case. In 1910, Jean Jaurès [leader of the French socialist movement] took the lead in defending a working-class coal miner, Jules Durand, accused of complicity in and condemned to death for the murder of a labor leader. As in the Dreyfus Affair, a false dossier had been used to convict Durand. Jaurès argued that the memory of the Dreyfus Affair saved Durand, calling the case the working class’s Dreyfus Affair.

Release date

28/03/1914

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